There is no apparent direct dependency, and the indirect dependency
through the RSA and legacy ECP modules is already encoded in the
chain
MBEDTLS_X509_USE_C
-> MBEDTLS_PK_PARSE_C
-> MBEDTLS_PK_C
-> MBEDTLS_RSA_C || MBEDTLS_ECP_C
-> MBEDTLS_BIGNUM_C
which will be modified to
MBEDTLS_X509_USE_C
-> MBEDTLS_PK_PARSE_C
-> MBEDTLS_PK_C
-> MBEDTLS_RSA_C || MBEDTLS_ECP_C || MBEDTLS_USE_TINYCRYPT
in which case MBEDTLS_BIGNUM_C is not needed for MBEDTLS_X509_USE_C
if only MBEDTLS_USE_TINYCRYPT is set, but not MBEDTLS_RSA_C or
MBEDTLS_ECP_C.
asn1.h uses uint8_t which is defined in stdint.h.
This wasn't caught earlier by the luck that whenever asn1.h
was included, another header was included earlier that did in
turn include stdint.h.
Remark: Including ecp.h is actually redundant because it's
also included from ecdh.h. However, it's good practice to
explicitly include header files that are being used directly,
and ssl.h does use MBEDTLS_ECP_MAX_BYTES which is defined in ecp.h.
ssl.h contains a dummy union of fields each large enough to
hold the PMS for a particular ciphersuite. In particular, for
pure-ECDH ciphersuites, it contains a field large enough to
hold the ECDH shared secret in any of the enabled curves.
So far, this upper bound was unconditionally chosen to be
MBEDTLS_ECP_MAX_BYTES from the ECP module.
With the introduction of TinyCrypt as an alternative implementation
for ECDH, we need to
- guard the use of MBEDTLS_ECP_MAX_BYTES because MBEDTLS_ECP_C
is no longer implied by the surrounding MBEDTLS_KEY_EXCHANGE_XXX
guards
- add another field which contains the maximum length of shared
ECDH secrets for curves supported by TinyCrypt.
mbedtls/ecp.h defines constants
MBEDTLS_ECP_PF_UNCOMPRESSED
MBEDTLS_ECP_PF_COMPRESSED
MBEDTLS_ECP_TLS_NAMED_CURVE
which regard the encoding of elliptic curves and curve point formats in TLS.
As such, they should be defined in the SSL namespace. Asides, this will help
replacing the legacy ECC crypto by alternative ECC implementations.
Even though exhaustive testing of TinyCrypt is left for later,
without this test we don't have any evidence that PK writing
works for TinyCrypt-based PK context.
TinyCrypt only supports Secp256r1, so skip all tests in test_suite_x509parse
which use different curves, while splitting those which rely on Secp256r1
alone into two tests: one for legacy ECC, and one for TinyCrypt.
Studying and improving the TinyCrypt test coverage is left for a later commit.
The current pkwrite tests involving ECC all use curves different
from Secp256r1, so they don't apply to TinyCrypt.
Adding tests for TinyCrypt is left to a later commit.
- The underlying test vectors are for Secp192r1, while TinyCrypt uses Secp256r1.
- The test implementation is specific to the structure of legacy-ECC PK ctxs.
Addition of analogous tests for TinyCrypt-based ECC PK contexts are left
for a later commit.
PEM-encoded keys with PEM header
-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
...
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----
were previously not parsed in configurations using TinyCrypt
instead of legacy ECC crypto.
The PK type MBEDTLS_PK_ECDSA is never returned from
`mbedtls_pk_info_from_type()`. Instead, EC keys either
are identified as MBEDTLS_PK_ECKEY_DH (in case they
must only be used for ECDHE) or MBEDTLS_PK_ECKEY (in
case they can be used for any algorithm).
With TinyCrypt and legacy ECC mutually exclusive, we don't have
to use #if TINYCRYPT #else #if LEGACY #endif #endif anymore, but
can add the TC and legacy based ECC implementations independently.
- TinyCrypt uses `0` for errors.
- The first argument to uECC_verify() should be the public key,
but the previous code passed the beginning of the entire
private-public key structure.
