Context:
The macro `MBEDTLS_ECP_BUDGET()` is called before performing a
number of potentially time-consuming ECC operations. If restartable
ECC is enabled, it wraps a call to `mbedtls_ecp_check_budget()`
which in turn checks if the requested number of operations can be
performed without exceeding the maximum number of consecutive ECC
operations.
Issue:
The function `mbedtls_ecp_check_budget()` expects a the number
of requested operations to be given as a value of type `unsigned`,
while some calls of the wrapper macro `MBEDTLS_ECP_BUDGET()` use
expressions of type `size_t`.
This rightfully leads to warnings about implicit truncation
from `size_t` to `unsigned` on some compilers.
Fix:
This commit makes the truncation explicit by adding an explicit cast
to `unsigned` in the expansion of the `MBEDTLS_ECP_BUDGET()` macro.
Justification:
Functionally, the new version is equivalent to the previous code.
The warning about truncation can be discarded because, as can be
inferred from `ecp.h`, the number of requested operations is never
larger than 1000.
Rename the PLATFORM HW error, to avoid ABI breakage with Mbed OS.
The value changed as well, as previous value was not in the range of
Mbed TLS low level error codes.
The previous comment in ecp.h that only functions that take a "restart
context" argument can restart was wrong due to ECDH and SSL functions.
Changing that criterion to "document says if can return IN PROGRESS".
This requires updating the documentation of the SSL functions to mention this
explicitly, but it's something we really ought to do anyway, a bit
embarrassing that this wasn't done already - callers need to know what
`MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_xxx` error codes to special-case. Note that the documentation
of the relevant functions was in a suboptimal state, so it was improved in the
process - it could use some more improvement, but only the changes that helped
cleanly insert the info about the IN_PROGRESS part were done here.
Also, while updating the ecp.h comment, I noticed several functions in the
ECDH module were wrongfully documented as restartable, which is probably a
left-over from the days before `mbedtls_ecdh_enable_restart()` was introduced.
Fixing that as well, to make the criterion used in ecp.h correct.
The Cortex M4, M7 MCUs and the Cortex A CPUs support the ARM DSP
instructions, and especially the umaal instruction which greatly
speed up MULADDC code. In addition the patch switched the ASM
constraints to registers instead of memory, giving the opportunity
for the compiler to load them the best way.
The speed improvement is variable depending on the crypto operation
and the CPU. Here are the results on a Cortex M4, a Cortex M7 and a
Cortex A8. All tests have been done with GCC 6.3 using -O2. RSA uses a
RSA-4096 key. ECDSA uses a secp256r1 curve EC key pair.
+--------+--------+--------+
| M4 | M7 | A8 |
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+
| ECDSA signing | +6.3% | +7.9% | +4.1% |
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+
| RSA signing | +43.7% | +68.3% | +26.3% |
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+
| RSA encryption | +3.4% | +9.7% | +3.6% |
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+
| RSA decryption | +43.0% | +67.8% | +22.8% |
+----------------+--------+--------+--------+
I ran the whole testsuite on the Cortex A8 Linux environment, and it
all passes.
Yotta is no longer supported by Mbed TLS, so has been removed. Specifically, the
following changes have been made:
* references to yotta have been removed from the main readme and build
instructions
* the yotta module directory and build script has been removed
* yotta has been removed from test scripts such as all.sh and check-names.sh
* yotta has been removed from other files that that referenced it such as the
doxyfile and the bn_mul.h header
* yotta specific configurations and references have been removed from config.h
* development-restricted: (578 commits)
Update library version number to 2.13.1
Don't define _POSIX_C_SOURCE in header file
Don't declare and define gmtime()-mutex on Windows platforms
Correct preprocessor guards determining use of gmtime()
Correct documentation of mbedtls_platform_gmtime_r()
Correct typo in documentation of mbedtls_platform_gmtime_r()
Correct POSIX version check to determine presence of gmtime_r()
Improve documentation of mbedtls_platform_gmtime_r()
platform_utils.{c/h} -> platform_util.{c/h}
Don't include platform_time.h if !MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME
Improve wording of documentation of MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_GMTIME_R_ALT
Fix typo in documentation of MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_GMTIME_R_ALT
Replace 'thread safe' by 'thread-safe' in the documentation
Improve documentation of MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME_DATE
ChangeLog: Add missing renamings gmtime -> gmtime_r
Improve documentation of MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME_DATE
Minor documentation improvements
Style: Add missing period in documentation in threading.h
Rename mbedtls_platform_gmtime() to mbedtls_platform_gmtime_r()
Guard decl and use of gmtime mutex by HAVE_TIME_DATE and !GMTIME_ALT
...
Previous commits attempted to use `gmtime_s()` for IAR systems; however,
this attempt depends on the use of C11 extensions which lead to incompatibility
with other pieces of the library, such as the use of `memset()` which is
being deprecated in favor of `memset_s()` in C11.
