The blinding applied to the scalar before modular inversion is
inadequate. Bignum is not constant time/constant trace, side channel
attacks can retrieve the blinded value, factor it (it is smaller than
RSA keys and not guaranteed to have only large prime factors). Then the
key can be recovered by brute force.
Reducing the blinded value makes factoring useless because the adversary
can only recover pk*t+z*N instead of pk*t.
We were still reusing the internal HMAC-DRBG of the deterministic ECDSA
for blinding. This meant that with cryptographically low likelyhood the
result was not the same signature as the one the deterministic ECDSA
algorithm has to produce (however it is still a valid ECDSA signature).
To correct this we seed a second HMAC-DRBG with the same seed to restore
correct behavior. We also apply a label to avoid reusing the bits of the
ephemeral key for a different purpose and reduce the chance that they
leak.
This workaround can't be implemented in the restartable case without
penalising the case where external RNG is available or completely
defeating the purpose of the restartable feature, therefore in this case
the small chance of incorrect behavior remains.
The current interface does not allow passing an RNG, which is needed for
blinding. Using the scheme's internal HMAC-DRBG results the same
blinding values for the same key and message, diminishing the
effectiveness of the countermeasure. A new function
`mbedtls_ecdsa_det_ext` is available to address this problem.
`mbedtls_ecdsa_sign_det` reuses the internal HMAC-DRBG instance to
implement blinding. The advantage of this is that the algorithm is
deterministic too, not just the resulting signature. The drawback is
that the blinding is always the same for the same key and message.
This diminishes the efficiency of blinding and leaks information about
the private key.
A function that takes external randomness fixes this weakness.
All modules using restartable ECC operations support passing `NULL`
as the restart context as a means to not use the feature.
The restart contexts for ECDSA and ECP are nested, and when calling
restartable ECP operations from restartable ECDSA operations, the
address of the ECP restart context to use is calculated by adding
the to the address of the ECDSA restart context the offset the of
the ECP restart context.
If the ECP restart context happens to not reside at offset `0`, this
leads to a non-`NULL` pointer being passed to restartable ECP
operations from restartable ECDSA-operations; those ECP operations
will hence assume that the pointer points to a valid ECP restart
address and likely run into a segmentation fault when trying to
dereference the non-NULL but close-to-NULL address.
The problem doesn't arise currently because luckily the ECP restart
context has offset 0 within the ECDSA restart context, but we should
not rely on it.
This commit fixes the passage from restartable ECDSA to restartable ECP
operations by propagating NULL as the restart context pointer.
Apart from being fragile, the previous version could also lead to
NULL pointer dereference failures in ASanDbg builds which dereferenced
the ECDSA restart context even though it's not needed to calculate the
address of the offset'ed ECP restart context.
dummy
Return the error code if failed, instead of returning value `1`.
If not failed, return the call of the underlying function,
in `mbedtls_ecdsa_genkey()`.
Return the condition compilation flags surrounding
`mbedtls_ecdh_compute_shared()`, `mbedtls_ecdh_gen_public()`,
`mbedtls_ecdsa_sign()` and `mbedtls_ecdsa_verify()` that were accidentally
removed in a previous merge.
Resolves#2163
Our API makes no guarantee that you can use a context after free()ing it
without re-init()ing it first, so better not give the wrong impression that we
do, while it's not policy and the rest of the code might not allow it.
Summary of merge conflicts:
include/mbedtls/ecdh.h -> documentation style
include/mbedtls/ecdsa.h -> documentation style
include/mbedtls/ecp.h -> alt style, new error codes, documentation style
include/mbedtls/error.h -> new error codes
library/error.c -> new error codes (generated anyway)
library/ecp.c:
- code of an extracted function was changed
library/ssl_cli.c:
- code addition on one side near code change on the other side
(ciphersuite validation)
library/x509_crt.c -> various things
- top fo file: helper structure added near old zeroize removed
- documentation of find_parent_in()'s signature: improved on one side,
added arguments on the other side
- documentation of find_parent()'s signature: same as above
- verify_chain(): variables initialised later to give compiler an
opportunity to warn us if not initialised on a code path
- find_parent(): funcion structure completely changed, for some reason git
tried to insert a paragraph of the old structure...
- merge_flags_with_cb(): data structure changed, one line was fixed with a
cast to keep MSVC happy, this cast is already in the new version
- in verify_restratable(): adjacent independent changes (function
signature on one line, variable type on the next)
programs/ssl/ssl_client2.c:
- testing for IN_PROGRESS return code near idle() (event-driven):
don't wait for data in the the socket if ECP_IN_PROGRESS
tests/data_files/Makefile: adjacent independent additions
tests/suites/test_suite_ecdsa.data: adjacent independent additions
tests/suites/test_suite_x509parse.data: adjacent independent additions
* development: (1059 commits)
Change symlink to hardlink to avoid permission issues
Fix out-of-tree testing symlinks on Windows
Updated version number to 2.10.0 for release
Add a disabled CMAC define in the no-entropy configuration
Adapt the ARIA test cases for new ECB function
Fix file permissions for ssl.h
Add ChangeLog entry for PR#1651
Fix MicroBlaze register typo.
Fix typo in doc and copy missing warning
Fix edit mistake in cipher_wrap.c
Update CTR doc for the 64-bit block cipher
Update CTR doc for other 128-bit block ciphers
Slightly tune ARIA CTR documentation
Remove double declaration of mbedtls_ssl_list_ciphersuites
Update CTR documentation
Use zeroize function from new platform_util
Move to new header style for ALT implementations
Add ifdef for selftest in header file
Fix typo in comments
Use more appropriate type for local variable
...
Clarify what MBEDTLS_ERR_ECP_SIG_LEN_MISMATCH and
MBEDTLS_ERR_PK_SIG_LEN_MISMATCH mean. Add comments to highlight that
this indicates that a valid signature is present, unlike other error
codes. See
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/pull/1149#discussion_r178130705
1) update ChangLog to have new feature in Features instead of Changes
2) Change MBEDTLS_ECDSA_ALT to function specific alternative definitions:
MBEDTLS_ECDSA_SIGN_ALT, MBEDTLS_ECDSA_VERIFY_ALT and MBEDTLS_ECDSA_GENKEY_ALT
The call would anyway check for pointer equality and return early, but it
doesn't hurt to save a function call, and also this follows more uniformly the
pattern that those two lines go together:
#if defined(MBEDTLS_ECP_RESTARTBLE)
if( rs_ctx != NULL && ...
Previously we kept the ecdsa context created by the PK layer for ECDSA
operations on ECKEY in the ecdsa_restart_ctx structure, which was wrong, and
caused by the fact that we didn't have a proper handling of restart
sub-contexts in the PK layer.
Two different changes:
- the first one will allow us to store k in the restart context while
restarting the following ecp_mul() operation
- the second one is an simplification, unrelated to restartability, made
possible by the fact that ecp_gen_privkey() is now public
(Unrelated to restartable work, just noticed while staring at the code.)
Checking at the end is inefficient as we might give up when we just generated
a valid signature or key.
