Message ID | 20240223204149.4055630-1-stefanb@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive) |
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Series | Add support for NIST P521 to ecdsa | expand |
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 03:41:39PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote: > This series adds support for the NIST P521 curve to the ecdsa module. > > An issue with the current code in ecdsa is that it assumes that input > arrays providing key coordinates for example, are arrays of digits > (a 'digit' is a 'u64'). This works well for all currently supported > curves, such as NIST P192/256/384, but does not work for NIST P521 where > coordinates are 8 digits + 2 bytes long. So some of the changes deal with > converting byte arrays to digits and adjusting tests on input byte > array lengths to tolerate arrays not providing multiples of 8 bytes. Don't you also need to amend software_key_query()? In the "issig" case, it calculates len = crypto_sig_maxsize(sig), which is 72 bytes for P521, then further below calculates "info->max_sig_size = 2 * (len + 3) + 2;" I believe the ASN.1 encoded integers are just 66 bytes instead of 72, so info->max_sig_size is 6 bytes too large. Am I missing something? Thanks, Lukas
On 2/29/24 04:34, Lukas Wunner wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 03:41:39PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote: >> This series adds support for the NIST P521 curve to the ecdsa module. >> >> An issue with the current code in ecdsa is that it assumes that input >> arrays providing key coordinates for example, are arrays of digits >> (a 'digit' is a 'u64'). This works well for all currently supported >> curves, such as NIST P192/256/384, but does not work for NIST P521 where >> coordinates are 8 digits + 2 bytes long. So some of the changes deal with >> converting byte arrays to digits and adjusting tests on input byte >> array lengths to tolerate arrays not providing multiples of 8 bytes. > > Don't you also need to amend software_key_query()? In the "issig" case, > it calculates len = crypto_sig_maxsize(sig), which is 72 bytes for P521, > then further below calculates "info->max_sig_size = 2 * (len + 3) + 2;" > > I believe the ASN.1 encoded integers are just 66 bytes instead of 72, > so info->max_sig_size is 6 bytes too large. Am I missing something? Right! Good catch. While the 'keyctl pkey_verify' interface was already working the space was too generous with 72 bytes. So I adjusted ecdsa_max_size now to base the size calculations on nbits rather than ndigits and we now get 66 bytes. For so-far supported curves the max_sig_size is: 2 bytes for sequence (0x30) + following length as single byte Each coordinate may have a 0 prepended to make a possibly negative number positive: => 2 + 2 * (2 + 1 + len) In case of NIST P521 the max signature length is calculated as follows: 3 bytes for sequence (0x30) + following length as 2 bytes The coordinates won't have a preprended 0 byte since only 1 bit is used in the highest bit, so only 2 bytes for => 3 + 2 * (2 + len) We would have to adjust the math there as well. The max. signature size for NIST P521 is 139 rather than 140 with the first formula. Stefan > > Thanks, > > Lukas