- 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.
The PK-type MBEDTLS_PK_ECDSA isn't really used by the library.
Especially, when parsing a generic EC key, a PK context of type
MBEDTLS_PK_ECKEY will be requested. Hence, to drop in TinyCrypt
for the legacy-ECC implementation, the PK type that TinyCrypt
implements must be MBEDTLS_PK_ECKEY.
TinyCrypt should be used as a replacement of legacy ECC. In particular,
there shouldn't be any use of identifiers from the legacy ECC module.
So far, there's the configuration option
MBEDTLS_SSL_CONF_SINGLE_EC_GRP_ID
that's relevant if MBEDTLS_SSL_CONF_SINGLE_CURVE is set, and which in
this case must resolve to an identifier of type mbedtls_ecp_group_id
indicating which single curve to enable.
With the introduction of TinyCrypt, we must either change the type
of this option to mbedtls_uecc_group_id, or introduce a separate
compilation option.
In order to avoid type confusion, this commit follows tha latter
approach, introducing the configuration option
MBEDTLS_SSL_CONF_SINGLE_UECC_GRP_ID
that indicatesthe TinyCrypt group identifier of the single curve
to use (must be Secp256r1) if MBEDTLS_SSL_CONF_SINGLE_CURVE
and MBEDTLS_USE_TINYCRYPT are set.
So far, ssl_client2 and ssl_server2 were relying on MBEDTLS_CTR_DRBG_C
being set. This commit adapts them to use HMAC DRBG in case CTR DRBG
is disabled in the configuration.
Note that disabling CTR DRBG in favor of HMAC DRBG can be useful on
constrained systems because Mbed TLS' HMAC DRBG is slightly smaller,
and moreover needed anyway as part of deterministic ECDSA.
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.
