The normal way is to pass the shared secret to a key derivation.
Having an ad hoc function will allow us to simplify the possible
behaviors of key agreement and get rid of "key selection" algorithms
which are a hard-to-understand invention of this API.
Use separate step types for a KDF secret and for the private key in a
key agreement.
Determine which key type is allowed from the step type, independently
of the KDF.
Forbid raw inputs for certain steps. They definitely should be
forbidden for asymmetric keys, which are structured. Also forbid them
for KDF secrets: the secrets are supposed to be keys, even if they're
unstructured.
Add the ability to specify Diffie-Hellman key exchange keys. Specify the
import/export format as well, even though importing and exporting isn't
implemented yet.
Remove front matter and DSS parameters from our DSA key formats, both
keypair and public key, to make it just a representation of the integer
private key, `x`, or the public key, `y`, respectively.
DSA and static DH need extra domain parameters. Instead of passing these
in with the keys themselves, add get and set functions to set and
retrieve this information about keys.
Remove front matter from our EC key format, to make it just the contents
of an ECPoint as defined by SEC1 section 2.3.3.
As a consequence of the simplification, remove the restriction on not
being able to use an ECDH key with ECDSA. There is no longer any OID
specified when importing a key, so we can't reject importing of an ECDH
key for the purpose of ECDSA based on the OID.
Finish changing "start" to "set up".
Correct the way to set an IV for decryption: it's set_iv(), not
update().
When decrypting, the IV is given, not random.
Remove pkcs-1 and rsaEncryption front matter from RSA public keys. Move
code that was shared between RSA and other key types (like EC keys) to
be used only with non-RSA keys.
Copy the nice and clear documentation from psa_export_key() as to what
implementations are allowed to do regarding key export formats, as the
same applies to public keys.
hash_setup and mac_setup used to be called hash_start and mac_start,
but we've now converged on _setup as names. Finish making the
terminology in the documentation consistent.
We've added documentation for how context objects for multi-part
operations must be initialized consistently for key policy, hash,
cipher, and MAC. Update the generator documentation to be consistent
with how we've documented the other operations.
Add new initializers for cipher operation objects and use them in our
tests and library code. Prefer using the macro initializers due to their
straightforwardness.
Add new initializers for MAC operation objects and use them in our tests
and library code. Prefer using the macro initializers due to their
straightforwardness.
Add new initializers for hash operation objects and use them in our
tests and library code. Prefer using the macro initializers due to their
straightforwardness.
Add new initializers for key policies and use them in our docs, example
programs, tests, and library code. Prefer using the macro initializers
due to their straightforwardness.
Some parts of the library, and crypto drivers, need to see key types,
algorithms, policies, etc. but not API functions. Move portable
integral types and macros to build and analyze values of these types
to a separate headers crypto_types.h and crypto_values.h.
No functional changes, code was only moved from crypto.h to the new headers.
Define psa_status_t to int32_t unconditionally. There's no reason to
refer to psa_error_t here: psa_error_t is int32_t if it's present. We
would only need a conditional definition if psa_defs.h and
psa_crypto.h used the same type name.
Keep the conditional definition of PSA_SUCCESS. Although the C
preprocessor allows a duplicate definition for a macro, it has to be
the exact same token sequence, not merely an equivalent way to build
the same value.
Some of the documentation is obsolete in its reference to key slots
when it should discuss key handles. This may require a further pass,
possibly with some reorganization of error codes.
Update the documentation of functions that modify key slots (key
material creation and psa_set_key_policy()) to discuss how they affect
storage.
Replace `psa_key_slot_t key` by `psa_key_handle_t` in function
declarations.
This is a transition period during which handles are key slot numbers
and the whole library can still be used by accessing a key slot number
without allocating a handle.
Allow use of persistent keys, including configuring them, importing and
exporting them, and destroying them.
When getting a slot using psa_get_key_slot, there are 3 scenarios that
can occur if the keys lifetime is persistent:
1. Key type is PSA_KEY_TYPE_NONE, no persistent storage entry:
- The key slot is treated as a standard empty key slot
2. Key type is PSA_KEY_TYPE_NONE, persistent storage entry exists:
- Attempt to load the key from persistent storage
3. Key type is not PSA_KEY_TYPE_NONE:
- As checking persistent storage on every use of the key could
be expensive, the persistent key is assumed to be saved in
persistent storage, the in-memory key is continued to be used.
This commit adds KDF algorithm identifiers `PSA_ALG_TLS12_PRF(HASH)`
to the PSA crypto API. They represent the key derivation functions
used by TLS 1.2 for the PreMasterSecret->MasterSecret and
MasterSecret->KeyBlock conversions.
Use m for the bit size of the field order, not q which is
traditionally the field order.
Correct and clarify the private key representation format as has been
done for the private key and ECDH shared secret formats.
The endianness actually depends on the curve type.
Correct the terminology around "curve size" and "order of the curve".
I tried to find a formulation that is comprehensible to programmers
who do not know the underlying mathematics, but nonetheless correct
and precise.
Use similar terminology in other places that were using "order of the
curve" to describe the bit size associated with the curve.
psa_key_derivation requires the caller to specify a maximum capacity.
This commit adds a special value that indicates that the maximum
capacity should be the maximum supported by the algorithm. This is
currently meant only for selection algorithms used on the shared
secret produced by a key agreement.
A key selection algorithm is similar to a key derivation algorithm in
that it takes a secret input and produces a secret output stream.
However, unlike key derivation algorithms, there is no expectation
that the input cannot be reconstructed from the output. Key selection
algorithms are exclusively meant to be used on the output of a key
agreement algorithm to select chunks of the shared secret.
Change the import/export format of private elliptic curve keys from
RFC 5915 to the raw secret value. This commit updates the format
specification and the import code, but not the export code.
Add comments noting that the maximum length of a MAC must fit in
PSA_ALG_MAC_TRUNCATION_MASK. Add a unit test that verifies that the
maximum MAC size fits.
The macro was used under the name PSA_ALG_IS_BLOCK_CIPHER_MAC but
defined as PSA_ALG_IS_CIPHER_MAC. That wouldn't have worked if we used
this macro (we currently don't but it may become useful).
TLS now defines named curves in the "TLS Supported Groups registry",
but we're using the encoding only for elliptic curves, so don't
include values that aren't named curve.
While we're at it, upgrade the reference to the shiny new RFC 8422.
OFB and CFB are streaming modes. XTS is a not a cipher mode but it
doesn't use a separate padding step. This leaves only CBC as a block
cipher mode that needs a padding step.
Since CBC is the only mode that uses a separate padding step, and is
likely to remain the only mode in the future, encode the padding mode
directly in the algorithm constant, rather than building up an
algorithm value from a chaining mode and a padding mode. This greatly
simplifies the interface as well as some parts of the implementation.
There were only 5 categories (now 4). Reduce the category mask from 7
bits to 3.
Combine unformatted, not-necessarily-uniform keys (HMAC, derivation)
with raw data.
Reintroduce a KEY_TYPE_IS_UNSTRUCTURED macro (which used to exist
under the name KEY_TYPE_IS_RAW_DATA macro) for key types that don't
have any structure, including both should-be-uniform keys (such as
block cipher and stream cipher keys) and not-necessarily-uniform
keys (such as HMAC keys and secrets for key derivation).
MBEDTLS_PK_WRITE_C only requires either MBEDTLS_RSA_C or MBEDTLS_ECP_C to be defined.
Added wrappers to handle the cases where only one has been defined.
Moved mbedtls_pk_init to be within the ifdefs, so it's only called if appropriate.
* Broken link #PSA_ALG_SHA_256
* Duplicate group name "generators"
* Missing documentation in psa_generate_key_extra_rsa due to bad magic
comment marker
New key type PSA_KEY_TYPE_DERIVE. New usage flag PSA_KEY_USAGE_DERIVE.
New function psa_key_derivation.
No key derivation algorithm is implemented yet. The code may not
compile with -Wunused.
Write some unit test code for psa_key_derivation. Most of it cannot be
used yet due to the lack of a key derivation algorithm.
Add an API for byte generators: psa_crypto_generator_t,
PSA_CRYPTO_GENERATOR_INIT, psa_crypto_generator_init,
psa_get_generator_capacity, psa_generator_read,
psa_generator_import_key, psa_generator_abort.
This commit does not yet implement any generator algorithm, it only
provides the framework. This code may not compile with -Wunused.
This is the most common mode and the only mode that Mbed TLS functions
fully supports (mbedtls_rsa_rsassa_pss_verify_ext can verify
signatures with a different salt length).
Explicitly state that calling abort is safe after initializing to
zero.
Explicitly state that calling abort on an inactive operation is safe,
and replace "active" by "initialized" in the description of the
parameter.
Get rid of the recommendation for implementers to try to handle
uninitialized structures safely. It's good advice in principle but
cannot be achieved in a robust way and the wording was confusing.
No common signature algorithm uses a salt (RSA-PKCS#1v1.5, RSA-PSS,
DSA, ECDSA, EdDSA). We don't even take an IV for MAC whereas MAC
algorithms with IV are uncommon but heard of. So remove the salt
parameter from psa_asymmetric_sign and psa_asymmetric_verify.
Make function names for multipart operations more consistent (cipher
edition).
Rename symmetric cipher multipart operation functions so that they all
start with psa_cipher_:
* psa_encrypt_setup -> psa_cipher_encrypt_setup
* psa_decrypt_setup -> psa_cipher_decrypt_setup
* psa_encrypt_set_iv -> psa_cipher_set_iv
* psa_encrypt_generate_iv -> psa_cipher_generate_iv
Make function names for multipart operations more consistent (MAC
setup edition).
Split psa_mac_setup into two functions psa_mac_sign_setup and
psa_mac_verify_setup. These functions behave identically except that
they require different usage flags on the key. The goal of the split
is to enforce the key policy during setup rather than at the end of
the operation (which was a bit of a hack).
In psa_mac_sign_finish and psa_mac_verify_finish, if the operation is
of the wrong type, abort the operation before returning BAD_STATE.
Macros such as PSA_HASH_SIZE whose definitions can be the same
everywhere except in implementations that support non-standard
algorithms remain in crypto.h, at least for the time being.
This header will contain macros that calculate buffer sizes, whose
semantics are standardized but whose definitions are
implementation-specific because they depend on the available algorithms
and on some permitted buffer size tolerances.
Move size macros from crypto_struct.h to crypto_sizes.h, because these
definitions need to be available both in the frontend and in the
backend, whereas structures have different contents.
Change the representation of an ECDSA signature from the ASN.1 DER
encoding used in TLS and X.509, to the concatenation of r and s
in big-endian order with a fixed size. A fixed size helps memory and
buffer management and this representation is generally easier to use
for anything that doesn't require the ASN.1 representation. This is
the same representation as PKCS#11 (Cryptoki) except that PKCS#11
allows r and s to be truncated (both to the same length), which
complicates the implementation and negates the advantage of a
fixed-size representation.
* Distinguish randomized ECDSA from deterministic ECDSA.
* Deterministic ECDSA needs to be parametrized by a hash.
* Randomized ECDSA only uses the hash for the initial hash step,
but add ECDSA(hash) algorithms anyway so that all the signature
algorithms encode the initial hashing step.
* Add brief documentation for the ECDSA signature mechanisms.
* Also define DSA signature mechanisms while I'm at it. There were
already key types for DSA.
* PSS needs to be parametrized by a hash.
* Don't use `_MGF1` in the names of macros for OAEP and PSS. No one
ever uses anything else.
* Add brief documentation for the RSA signature mechanisms.
Doxygen interprets `\param` as starting documentation for a new param, or
to extend a previously started `\param` documentation when the same
reference is used. The intention here was to reference the function
parameter, not extend the previous documentation. Use `\p` to refer to
function parameters.
It isn't used to define other macros and it doesn't seem that useful
for users. Remove it, we can reintroduce it if needed.
Define a similar function key_type_is_raw_bytes in the implementation
with a clear semantics: it's a key that's represented as a struct
raw_data.
When calling psa_generate_key, pass the size of the parameters buffer
explicitly. This makes calls more verbose but less error-prone. This
also has the benefit that in an implementation with separation, the
frontend knows how many bytes to send to the backend without needing
to know about each key type.
Instead of rolling our own list of elliptic curve identifiers, use one
from somewhere. Pick TLS because it's the right size (16 bits) and
it's as good as any.
Conflicts:
library/psa_crypto.c
tests/suites/test_suite_psa_crypto.data
tests/suites/test_suite_psa_crypto.function
All the conflicts are concurrent additions where the order doesn't
matter. I put the code from feature-psa (key policy) before the code
from PR #13 (key lifetime).
psa_get_key_lifetime() behavior changed regarding empty slots, now
it return the lifetime of and empty slots. Documentation in header
file updated accordingly.
Document key import/export functions, hash functions, and asymmetric
sign/verify, as well as some related macros and types.
Nicer formatting for return values: use \retval.
New header file crypto_struct.h. The main file crypto.sh declares
structures which are implementation-defined. These structures must be
defined in crypto_struct.h, which is included at the end so that the
structures can use types defined in crypto.h.
Implement psa_hash_start, psa_hash_update and psa_hash_final. This
should work for all hash algorithms supported by Mbed TLS, but has
only been smoke-tested for SHA-256, and only in the nominal case.
Define psa_key_type_t and a first stab at a few values.
New functions psa_import_key, psa_export_key, psa_destroy_key,
psa_get_key_information. Implement them for raw data and RSA.
Under the hood, create an in-memory, fixed-size keystore with room
for MBEDTLS_PSA_KEY_SLOT_COUNT - 1 keys.
New module psa_crypto.c (MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_C):
Platform Security Architecture compatibility layer on top of
libmedcrypto.
Implement psa_crypto_init function which sets up a RNG.
Add a mbedtls_psa_crypto_free function which deinitializes the
library.
Define a first batch of error codes.
