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Follow-up to #1696, which introduced the AuthPlugin interface. To let other authentication plugins be implemented on top of it, the driver must not interpret the server challenge on their behalf.

parseAuthSwitchData stripped a trailing 0x00 from every auth switch request.
That only matches plugins whose challenge is a NUL-terminated 20-byte scramble (mysql_native_password, caching_sha2_password, sha256_password).
To permit having new plugins, plugins must receive the raw nonce. This cannot permit adding any plugin : for example mariadb plugins such as client_ed25519 and MariaDB parsec, send 32 bytes nonce without \0 terminator. so cannot use current implementation since it would be truncated to 31 bytes.

this PR send raw authentication data directly to plugin.

The existing client_ed25519 unit test could not catch this: it calls InitAuth directly with a fixed nonce that does not end with 0x00 (it never goes through parseAuthSwitchData).

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  • Code compiles correctly
  • Created tests which fail without the change (if possible)
  • All tests passing
  • Extended the README / documentation, if necessary
  • Added myself / the copyright holder to the AUTHORS file

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Authentication switch data now retains any trailing NUL byte. The plugin contract documents this input. The caching SHA-2 and password encryption paths reject challenges shorter than 20 bytes and use the first 20 bytes.

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Authentication challenge handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve the server challenge
auth.go, auth_plugin.go, README.md, auth_plugin_test.go, auth_test.go
parseAuthSwitchData preserves trailing NUL bytes. The InitAuth contract and documentation specify that plugins receive the challenge as sent. Tests check NUL-terminated challenges in authentication-switch callbacks and Ed25519 authentication-switch responses.
Validate SHA-256 challenges
auth_caching_sha2.go, auth_sha256.go, auth_security_test.go
The caching SHA-2 plugin and encryptPassword return ErrMalformPkt for challenges shorter than 20 bytes and use the first 20 bytes. The security test packet no longer appends a trailing NUL.

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auth_plugin_test.go (1)

293-293: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test a switch challenge with a trailing NUL.

AuthPlugin.InitAuth requires the driver to preserve trailing NUL bytes. The current test sends no trailing NUL and expects no trailing NUL. The previous parser would therefore still pass this test. Restore the NUL in the payload and both seed assertions.

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-					if gotCtx != ctx || gotAuth == auth || gotAuth.User() != "user" || gotAuth.Password() != "selected-password" || !gotAuth.TLS() || string(seed) != "challenge" {
+					if gotCtx != ctx || gotAuth == auth || gotAuth.User() != "user" || gotAuth.Password() != "selected-password" || !gotAuth.TLS() || string(seed) != "challenge\x00" {
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-					if gotCtx != ctx || gotAuth != switchedAuth || string(seed) != "challenge" {
+					if gotCtx != ctx || gotAuth != switchedAuth || string(seed) != "challenge\x00" {
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-	payload = append(payload, "challenge"...)
+	payload = append(payload, "challenge\x00"...)
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Review comment at @auth_plugin_test.go at line 293:
Update the switch-challenge test payload and both seed assertions to include the
trailing NUL, ensuring the test verifies that AuthPlugin.InitAuth preserves it.

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- Line 293: Update the switch-challenge test payload and both seed assertions to
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coverage: 85.786% (-0.03%) from 85.814% — rusher:auth-impl into go-sql-driver:master

Comment thread auth_caching_sha2.go
func (p *cachingSha2PasswordPlugin) InitAuth(ctx context.Context, authData []byte, auth *AuthContext) ([]byte, error) {
p.state = cachingSha2Initial
return scrambleSHA256Password(authData, auth.Password()), nil
if len(authData) < 20 {

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if len(authData) < 20 {
// Older MySQL authentication methods append a NUL byte to the auth data,
// and `caching_sha2_password` follows the same convention.
if len(authData) < 20 or len(authData) > 21 {

Comment thread auth_plugin.go
Comment on lines -22 to +24
// authData is the challenge data from the server. It must not be modified
// and must be copied if retained after the call.
// authData is the challenge data exactly as sent by the server, including
// any trailing NUL. It must not be modified and must be copied if retained
// after the call.

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Explaining the NUL byte here won't make sense to readers who aren't already aware of this issue. Please revert this change.

Comment thread auth_sha256.go
}
if len(seed) == 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: empty auth seed", ErrMalformPkt)
if len(seed) < 20 {

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if len(seed) < 20 {
// Older MySQL authentication methods append a NUL byte to the auth data,
// and `sha256_password` follows the same convention.
if len(seed) < 20 or len(seed) > 21 {

Comment thread README.md
Comment on lines +675 to +676
`InitAuth` receives the server challenge exactly as sent, including any trailing NUL byte; plugins interpret it themselves.

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remove this too.

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