This patch fixes an issue we encountered with more stringent compiler
warnings. The signature_is_good variable has a possibility of being
used uninitialized. This patch moves the use of the variable to a
place where it cannot be used while uninitialized.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
This commit splits each test in ssl-opt.sh related to context serialization
in three tests, exercising the use of CCM, GCM and ChaChaPoly separately.
The reason is that the choice of primitive affects the presence and size
of an explicit IV, and we should test that space for those IVs is correctly
restored during context deserialization; in fact, this was not the case
previously, as fixed in the last commit, and was not caught by the tests
because only ChaChaPoly was tested.
The SSL context maintains a set of 'out pointers' indicating the
address at which to write the header fields of the next outgoing
record. Some of these addresses have a static offset from the
beginning of the record header, while other offsets can vary
depending on the active record encryption mechanism: For example,
if an explicit IV is in use, there's an offset between the end
of the record header and the beginning of the encrypted data to
allow the explicit IV to be placed in between; also, if the DTLS
Connection ID (CID) feature is in use, the CID is part of the
record header, shifting all subsequent information (length, IV, data)
to the back.
When setting up an SSL context, the out pointers are initialized
according to the identity transform + no CID, and it is important
to keep them up to date whenever the record encryption mechanism
changes, which is done by the helper function ssl_update_out_pointers().
During context deserialization, updating the out pointers according
to the deserialized record transform went missing, leaving the out
pointers the initial state. When attemping to encrypt a record in
this state, this lead to failure if either a CID or an explicit IV
was in use. This wasn't caught in the tests by the bad luck that
they didn't use CID, _and_ used the default ciphersuite based on
ChaChaPoly, which doesn't have an explicit IV. Changing either of
this would have made the existing tests fail.
This commit fixes the bug by adding a call to ssl_update_out_pointers()
to ssl_context_load() implementing context deserialization.
Extending test coverage is left for a separate commit.
According to SP800-90A, the DRBG seeding process should use a nonce
of length `security_strength / 2` bits as part of the DRBG seed. It
further notes that this nonce may be drawn from the same source of
entropy that is used for the first `security_strength` bits of the
DRBG seed. The present HMAC DRBG implementation does that, requesting
`security_strength * 3 / 2` bits of entropy from the configured entropy
source in total to form the initial part of the DRBG seed.
However, some entropy sources may have thresholds in terms of how much
entropy they can provide in a single call to their entropy gathering
function which may be exceeded by the present HMAC DRBG implementation
even if the threshold is not smaller than `security_strength` bits.
Specifically, this is the case for our own entropy module implementation
which only allows requesting at most 32 Bytes of entropy at a time
in configurations disabling SHA-512, and this leads to runtime failure
of HMAC DRBG when used with Mbed Crypto' own entropy callbacks in such
configurations.
This commit fixes this by splitting the seed entropy acquisition into
two calls, one requesting `security_strength` bits first, and another
one requesting `security_strength / 2` bits for the nonce.
Fixes#237.
Document that a curve returned by mbedtls_ecp_curve_list() or
mbedtls_ecp_grp_id_list() may lack support for ECDH or ECDSA.
Add a corresponding changelog entry, under "API Changes" because we
have changed the behavior: formerly, these functions skipped ECDH-only
curves, although this was not documented.
This being the first 3rdparty-contribution, we may want to consider the
structure of the project file generation scripts. Perhaps add small,
constribution-specific scripts to each directory in 3rdparty instead of adding
all constraints to generate_visualc_files.pl?
