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Michael Brown 846686325c [crypto] Use private data field for public-key algorithms
Following the example of commit 25072c1 ("[crypto] Use private data
field for key exchange algorithms"), extend the definition of a
public-key algorithm to include an opaque private data field, and use
this to eliminate the wrapper functions for PKCS#1 and RSA-PSS.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-06-19 14:54:03 +01:00
Michael Brown 0c617b9132 [crypto] Add support for RSA-PSS signature scheme
Add support for the RSA-PSS signature scheme as defined in RFC 8017
and required for TLS version 1.3.

Signature verification is deliberately implemented by first deriving
the salt value and then reconstructing the entire expected signature.
This is arguably inefficient since it involves two invocations of the
mask generation function when only one is required.  However, this
implementation approach keeps the code size minimal (since there is no
need to implement separate verification logic), and makes it provably
impossible to accidentally omit a verification step (such as checking
the leading zero bits or the fixed 0x01 or 0xbc bytes).  Since
signature verification is not a fast-path operation, the guaranteed
correctness is more valuable than a marginally faster execution.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-05-06 22:14:41 +01:00
Michael Brown c8743b8c8e [crypto] Allow for alternative RSA signature schemes
The RSA-PSS signature scheme has the same basic structure as the
existing PKCS#1 signature scheme, with a difference only in how the
digest value is encoded before being enciphered.

Abstract out the digest encoding from the signature and verification
methods, and add an explicit "pkcs1" to the relevant method names.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-05-06 22:14:37 +01:00
Michael Brown 7fe8b7fde4 [test] Use mock random data for public key self-tests
Make the public key self-tests fully deterministic by temporarily
overriding the function used to obtain random data for RSA encryption.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-05-06 21:43:44 +01:00
Michael Brown adcaaf9b93 [build] Mark known reviewed files as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
Some past security reviews carried out for UEFI Secure Boot signing
submissions have covered specific drivers or functional areas of iPXE.
Mark all of the files comprising these areas as permitted for UEFI
Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-14 16:10:29 +00:00
Michael Brown fb1188936c [crypto] Generalise rsa_parse_integer() to asn1_enter_unsigned()
ECDSA signature values and private keys are fixed-length unsigned
integers modulo N (the group order of the elliptic curve) and are
therefore most naturally represented in ASN.1 using ASN1_OCTET_STRING.

Private key representations do use ASN1_OCTET_STRING, but signature
values tend to use ASN1_INTEGER, which adds no value but does ensure
that the encoding becomes variable-length and requires handling a
pointless extra zero byte if the MSB of the unsigned value happens to
be set.

RSA also makes use of ASN1_INTEGER for modulus and exponent values.
Generalise the existing rsa_parse_integer() to asn1_enter_unsigned()
to allow this code to be reused for ECDSA.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-11 15:09:58 +00:00
Michael Brown 64f936d5df [crypto] Allow for OID-identified elliptic curve algorithms
Elliptic curves in X.509 certificates are identified via the
id-ecPublicKey object identifier (1.2.840.10045.2.1), with the
specific elliptic curve identified via a second OID in the algorithm
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-03 15:45:14 +00:00
Michael Brown 3e566818f7 [crypto] Remove obsolete maximum output length method
Now that public-key algorithms use ASN.1 builders to dynamically
allocate the output data, there is no further need for callers to be
able to determine the maximum output length.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-02 13:13:01 +00:00
Michael Brown 1ccc320ee9 [crypto] Construct asymmetric ciphered data using ASN.1 builders
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-02 13:12:25 +00:00
Michael Brown d4258272c6 [crypto] Construct signatures using ASN.1 builders
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-01 16:02:54 +00:00
Michael Brown 8cd963ab96 [crypto] Pass signatures for verification as ASN.1 cursors
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-01 14:50:54 +00:00
Michael Brown c9c0282594 [crypto] Restructure handling of ASN.1 bit strings
Signature values in ASN.1 tend to be encoded as bit strings rather
than octet strings.  In practice, no existent signature scheme uses a
non-integral number of bytes.

Switch to using a standard ASN.1 cursor to hold signature values, to
simplify consuming code.  Restructure the API to treat entering an
ASN.1 bit string in the same way as entering any other ASN.1 type.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-01 13:09:45 +00:00
Michael Brown 83ac98ce22 [crypto] Use Montgomery reduction for modular exponentiation
Speed up modular exponentiation by using Montgomery reduction rather
than direct modular reduction.

Montgomery reduction in base 2^n requires the modulus to be coprime to
2^n, which would limit us to requiring that the modulus is an odd
number.  Extend the implementation to include support for
exponentiation with even moduli via Garner's algorithm as described in
"Montgomery reduction with even modulus" (Koç, 1994).

Since almost all use cases for modular exponentation require a large
prime (and hence odd) modulus, the support for even moduli could
potentially be removed in future.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2024-11-28 15:06:01 +00:00
Michael Brown 46937a9df6 [crypto] Remove the concept of a public-key algorithm reusable context
Instances of cipher and digest algorithms tend to get called
repeatedly to process substantial amounts of data.  This is not true
for public-key algorithms, which tend to get called only once or twice
for a given key.

Simplify the public-key algorithm API so that there is no reusable
algorithm context.  In particular, this allows callers to omit the
error handling currently required to handle memory allocation (or key
parsing) errors from pubkey_init(), and to omit the cleanup calls to
pubkey_final().

This change does remove the ability for a caller to distinguish
between a verification failure due to a memory allocation failure and
a verification failure due to a bad signature.  This difference is not
material in practice: in both cases, for whatever reason, the caller
was unable to verify the signature and so cannot proceed further, and
the cause of the error will be visible to the user via the return
status code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2024-08-21 21:00:57 +01:00
Michael Brown 53f089b723 [crypto] Pass asymmetric keys as ASN.1 cursors
Asymmetric keys are invariably encountered within ASN.1 structures
such as X.509 certificates, and the various large integers within an
RSA key are themselves encoded using ASN.1.

Simplify all code handling asymmetric keys by passing keys as a single
ASN.1 cursor, rather than separate data and length pointers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2024-08-18 15:44:38 +01:00
Michael Brown b0093571f8 [crypto] Add support for PKCS#8 private key format
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2023-06-02 13:54:42 +01:00
Michael Brown bd7a5e4b9c [crypto] Allow algorithms to be included without being OID-identifiable
There are many ways in which the object for a cryptographic algorithm
may be included, even if not explicitly enabled in config/crypto.h.
For example: the MD5 algorithm is required by TLSv1.1 or earlier, by
iSCSI CHAP authentication, by HTTP digest authentication, and by NTLM
authentication.

In the current implementation, inclusion of an algorithm for any
reason will result in the algorithm's ASN.1 object identifier being
included in the "asn1_algorithms" table, which consequently allows the
algorithm to be used for any ASN1-identified purpose.  For example: if
the MD5 algorithm is included in order to support HTTP digest
authentication, then iPXE would accept a (validly signed) TLS
certificate using an MD5 digest.

Split the ASN.1 object identifiers into separate files that are
required only if explicitly enabled in config/crypto.h.  This allows
an algorithm to be omitted from the "asn1_algorithms" table even if
the algorithm implementation is dragged in for some other purpose.

The end result is that only the algorithms that are explicitly enabled
in config/crypto.h can be used for ASN1-identified purposes such as
signature verification.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2020-06-16 17:14:54 +01:00
Michael Brown 131635eac0 [crypto] Drag in configured digestInfo prefixes for any use of RSA
Ensure that the configured RSA digestInfo prefixes are included in any
build that includes rsa.o (rather than relying on x509.o or tls.o also
being present in the final binary).

This allows the RSA self-tests to be run in isolation.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2019-08-17 01:18:34 +01:00
Michael Brown 5b608bbfe0 [crypto] Expose RSA_CTX_SIZE constant
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2017-06-20 09:49:00 +01:00
Michael Brown b1caa48e4b [crypto] Support SHA-{224,384,512} in X.509 certificates
Add support for SHA-224, SHA-384, and SHA-512 as digest algorithms in
X.509 certificates, and allow the choice of public-key, cipher, and
digest algorithms to be configured at build time via config/crypto.h.

Originally-implemented-by: Tufan Karadere <tufank@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2015-08-02 16:54:24 +01:00
Michael Brown b6ee89ffb5 [legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL
Relicense files for which I am the sole author (as identified by
util/relicense.pl).

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2015-03-02 14:17:31 +00:00
Michael Brown 2dd3fffe18 [crypto] Add pubkey_match() to check for matching public/private key pairs
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2014-03-27 00:30:47 +00:00
Michael Brown c3b4860ce3 [legal] Update FSF mailing address in GPL licence texts
Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-07-20 19:55:45 +01:00
Michael Brown 4aad46ac70 [crypto] Generalise x509_parse_bit_string() to asn1_bit_string()
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-05-14 11:02:38 +01:00
Michael Brown ed64732b73 [crypto] Add an explicit "RSA signature incorrect" error message
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-03-27 14:58:45 +01:00
Michael Brown 38b7e43f7d [crypto] Generalise X.509 OID-identified algorithm to asn1.c
The concept of an OID-identified algorithm as defined in X.509 is used
in some other standards (e.g. PKCS#7).  Generalise this functionality
and provide it as part of the ASN.1 core.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-03-22 00:31:22 +00:00
Michael Brown 05c13716f9 [crypto] Use linker tables for RSA digestInfo prefixes
Allow external code to specify RSA digestInfo prefixes for additional
digest algorithms.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-03-20 17:10:39 +00:00
Michael Brown d6979e0d55 [rsa] Actually check the unused-bits byte in the public key bit string
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-03-18 20:46:38 +00:00
Michael Brown 3ec773cd2b [crypto] Force caller to provide temporary storage for modular calculations
bigint_mod_multiply() and bigint_mod_exp() require a fixed amount of
temporary storage for intermediate results.  (The amount of temporary
storage required depends upon the size of the integers involved.)

When performing calculations for 4096-bit RSA the amount of temporary
storage space required will exceed 2.5kB, which is too much to
allocate on the stack.  Avoid this problem by forcing the caller to
allocate temporary storage.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-03-18 20:22:43 +00:00
Michael Brown 299dedcff0 [crypto] Add native RSA algorithm
Add an implementation of RSA that uses the iPXE big-integer support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2012-03-18 13:36:07 +00:00