Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(Mbed TLS 4.0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain supported with its current
feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please reply to this thread or on
the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to leave feedback privately,
you can reply privately and your feedback will be anonymized before
sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/8170
We are considering removing support for RSA and RSA-PSK key exchanges in
Mbed TLS 4. These are cipher suites that use RSA encryption, as opposed
to cipher suites using a key agreement (ECDHE) plus RSA signature. These
key exchanges are hard to implement securely (we believe we got it
right, but it's very delicate code), and they add significantly to the
complexity of the TLS code. They have been formally deprecated for a
long time and were removed in TLS 1.3. However, I'm aware that some
ecosystems are clinging to RSA key exchange.
Are RSA-encryption key exchanges still relevant for Mbed TLS? If you
want Mbed TLS 4 to keep supporting RSA-encryption cipher suites in TLS
1.2, please let us know and tell us about your use cases.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(TF-PSA-Crypto 1.0 + Mbed TLS 4.0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain
supported with its current feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please
reply to this thread or on the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to
leave feedback privately, you can reply privately and your feedback will
be anonymized before sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/8231
We currently have two implementations of accelerated AES on x86_64 using
AESNI (Intel AES acceleration): using assembly or using compiler
intrinsics. The assembly code works with GCC and Clang without any
compilation options, but not with MSVC. The intrinsics work with MSVC,
but not with ancient GCC/Clang and they require compiling at least
aesni.c with suitable CPU variant options (e.g. -maes -mpclmul for Clang).
We're considering removing the assembly implementation. Is there still
interest in compiling AESNI support with older compilers or with simple
build systems that don't pass machine options?
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
+ Mbed TLS mailing list as well for visibility and any comments.
Regards,
Shebu
From: Zhang, Hao via TF-M <tf-m(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 12:37 AM
To: tf-m(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org
Subject: [TF-M] PSA Cryptoprocessor Driver Interface
Hi TF-M community,
TF-M allows Semiconductor vendors to plug in their HW accelerator using PSA cryptoprocessor driver interface. I have a couple of questions in terms of the driver interface.
1. To port customized HW accelerator to TF-M's Crypto service for TF-M v2.1.0 LTS using driver interface, for the multipart operation, https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/mbedtls/blob/zephyr/docs/proposed/psa… states that "A driver that implements a multi-part operation must define all of the entry points in this family as well as a type that represents the operation context." Take aead encrypt as an example, if the underlying hardware does not support aead_abort, could it implements aead_abort by simply return PSA_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED?
1. The driver interface depends heavily on psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.h to dispatch operations to customized HW accelerator, where the psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.h file is automatically generated by scripts/data_files/driver_templates/psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.h.jinja. To port customized HW accelerator to TF-M's Crypto service for TF-M v2.1.0 LTS, would the approach be creating a customized psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.h.jinja file, the driver description file in JSON, and entry point functions. If so and we are considering upstreaming TF-M in the future, all these files would go inside platform/ext/accelerator/<vendor name>. Efforts need to be made so files such as psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.h.jinja should point to mbedtls, right? Additionally, as .jinja is retiring (mentioned in another email exchange), how would semi vendors update psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.h in the future?
[https://opengraph.githubassets.com/c87e79773a7fb0841ea038f7cf3dfdf4170debb8…]<https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/mbedtls/blob/zephyr/docs/proposed/psa…>
mbedtls/docs/proposed/psa-driver-interface.md at zephyr * zephyrproject-rtos/mbedtls<https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/mbedtls/blob/zephyr/docs/proposed/psa…>
mbedtls module for Zephyr, this is not a mirror of the official mbedtls repository. - zephyrproject-rtos/mbedtls
github.com
Thank you very much!
Best regards
Hi,
Not sure whether I should report this as a bug or maybe an enhancement issue or maybe it is as-designed:
I recently migrated from 2.28.8 to 3.6.0 and noticed:
An X.509 certificate DN coded as T61 string (done automatically so by openssl for a DN that contains an underscore) is returned as a hex string in 3.6.0 while it is returned as a regular, human-readable string in 2.28.8.
As this is not working for us I patched mbedtls_c509_dn_gets() locally as shown below.
Please feedback whether you want me to report an issue or if the 3.6.0 behavior is as-designed for a good reason.
Best regards,
/Almut
--- mbedtls-3.6.0_orig/library/x509.c 2024-03-28 09:59:12.000000000 +0100
+++ mbedtls-3.6.0/library/x509.c 2024-05-21 10:43:43.327442284 +0200
@@ -840,9 +840,7 @@
MBEDTLS_X509_SAFE_SNPRINTF;
}
- print_hexstring = (name->val.tag != MBEDTLS_ASN1_UTF8_STRING) &&
- (name->val.tag != MBEDTLS_ASN1_PRINTABLE_STRING) &&
- (name->val.tag != MBEDTLS_ASN1_IA5_STRING);
+ print_hexstring = !MBEDTLS_ASN1_IS_STRING_TAG(name->val.tag);
if ((ret = mbedtls_oid_get_attr_short_name(&name->oid, &short_name)) == 0) {
ret = mbedtls_snprintf(p, n, "%s=", short_name);
I have a very basic use case, to use a buffer and perform ECDSA encryption in a TA application.
I also want to read back the private key which is generated.
I see functions like mbedtls_ecp_gen_key but I have failed to find enough details on what steps to follow to use this function.
It will be really helpful if I can be pointed to a example. Or let me know If there is some other way to achieve the end goal.
Hello Gilles,
I see that you are requesting feedback on a set of issues, but not on
support of EdDSA. Yet, support for ED25519 is an important requirement
for TLS and QUIC. With other crypto suites, the CPU load is
significantly lower for ED25519 than for ECDSA/secp255r1.
Somewhat related, but there is also demand for ChaCha20-poly1035, for
performance reason on some systems.
Are there any plans?
-- Christian Huitema
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(Mbed TLS 4.0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain supported with its current
feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please reply to this thread or on
the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to leave feedback privately,
you can reply privately and your feedback will be anonymized before
sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/9202
In 2025 (by the time Mbed TLS 4.0 is released), are CBC-based cipher
suites still relevant for Mbed TLS? If you still need support for
CBC-based cipher suites (as opposed to cipher suites using AEAD: CCM,
GCM or ChaChaPoly, or null cipher suites), please let us know.
Removing them would allow us to significantly simplify some parts of the
TLS code. They are difficult to implement securely due to being very
sensitive to side channels; we think we got it right, but at the expense
of performance, code size and maintainability.
One option we're considering is to keep CBC cipher suites, but only when
the encrypt-then-MAC (EtM) extension is enabled. However, this is
problematic because the TLS protocol does not allow a client to indicate
that it requires EtM support, which could lead to a failed connection
even when the server also have an AEAD cipher suite in common.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(Mbed TLS 4.0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain supported with its current
feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please reply to this thread or on
the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to leave feedback privately,
you can reply privately and your feedback will be anonymized before
sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/9201
We are considering removing static ECDH cipher suites. (Mbed TLS has
never supported static non-EC DH.) They are officially deprecated by RFC
9325. OpenSSL dropped them in 2016. If you want Mbed TLS 4.0 to continue
supporting ECDH, please let us know in what ecosystem they're still
relevant.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(TF-PSA-Crypto 1.0 + Mbed TLS 4,0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain
supported with its current feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please
reply to this thread or on the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to
leave feedback privately, you can reply privately and your feedback will
be anonymized before sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/8151
We are planning to remove the dynamic secure element interface enabled
by MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_SE_C, in favor of PSA secure element drivers
declared at compile time. The functionality is the same, but with a
cleaner interface (we learned from the first draft). However, this does
mean that all drivers must be declared at compile time.
If you are currently using MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_SE_C and relying on
runtime declaration of drivers, please let us know about your use case,
so that we can try to find an alternative solution.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(TF-PSA-Crypto 1.0 + Mbed TLS 4,0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain
supported with its current feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please
reply to this thread or on the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to
leave feedback privately, you can reply privately and your feedback will
be anonymized before sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/TF-PSA-Crypto/issues/103
We are removing all the ALT interfaces to implement hardware-accelerated
cryptography, in favor of PSA drivers. For the most part, PSA
accelerator drivers provide equivalent functionality to ALT interface.
However, there is one main exception: the ECC code allows replacing just
code ECC arithmetic (MBEDTLS_ECP_ALT) or even just selected functions
(sub-options of MBEDTLS_ECP_INTERNAL_ALT). On the other hand, the
granularity of PSA accelerators is whole mechanisms: ECDH, ECDSA, etc.
on a specific set of curves.
If you are currently using MBEDTLS_ECP_ALT or MBEDTLS_ECP_INTERNAL_ALT
to implement accelerated ECC airthmetic and relying on code from ecp.c,
ecdh.c and ecdsa.c to provide ECC mechanisms, please let us know what
your requirements are and how much of a pain it would be to have to
fully implement ECDH/ECDSA/... in your driver.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(TF-PSA-Crypto 1.0 + Mbed TLS 4,0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain
supported with its current feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please
reply to this thread or on the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to
leave feedback privately, you can reply privately and your feedback will
be anonymized before sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/TF-PSA-Crypto/issues/105
Mbed TLS 4 and TF-PSA-Crypto will complete our migration to PSA
cryptography APIs. For simplicity, PSA only requires implementations to
support complete representations RSA private keys, where all the fields
are provided (n, e, d, p, q, dp, dq, u). Thus, with only PSA APIs, it is
not possible to import an RSA private key without the public exponent,
or an RSA private key without the CRT parameters.
Should TF-PSA-Crypto provide an extension to support such private keys?
If you need this, please let us know about your use case.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(TF-PSA-Crypto 1.0 + Mbed TLS 4,0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain
supported with its current feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please
reply to this thread or on the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to
leave feedback privately, you can reply privately and your feedback will
be anonymized before sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/TF-PSA-Crypto/issues/102
Mbed TLS 4 and TF-PSA-Crypto will complete our migration to PSA
cryptography APIs, which are higher-level than the legacy mbedtls_xxx()
APIs in Mbed TLS ≤3.x. As a consequence, the API will only provide
access to ECC-based cryptographic mechanisms such as ECDH, ECDSA and
ECJPAKE. (ECIES can be implemented on top of ECDH. Support for EdDSA and
SPAKE2+ is planned, but might not be ready at the 4.0 release time.) It
will not provide access to ECC arithmetic functions such as
mbedtls_ecp_muladd().
Do you need custom ECC-based mechanisms (e.g. custom PAKE)? If so,
please let us know which mechanisms and what arithmetic they require. We
are not currently planning to make it possible to use such mechanisms
without patching the TF-PSA-Crypto code.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(TF-PSA-Crypto 1.0 + Mbed TLS 4,0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain
supported with its current feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please
reply to this thread or on the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to
leave feedback privately, you can reply privately and your feedback will
be anonymized before sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/TF-PSA-Crypto/issues/104
Mbed TLS 4 and TF-PSA-Crypto will complete our migration to PSA
cryptography APIs, which are higher-level than the legacy mbedtls_xxx()
APIs in Mbed TLS ≤3.x. As a consequence, the API will only provide
access to RSA-based encryption and signature mechanisms (PKCS#1v1.5
encryption, OAEP, PKCS#1v1.5 signature, RSS), not to the low-level
RSA-public and RSA-private operations.
Do you need custom RSA-based mechanisms (e.g. full-domain encryption or
hashing)? If so, please let us know. We are not currently planning to
make it possible to use such mechanisms without patching the
TF-PSA-Crypto code.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
Hello,
This is a request for feedback about the next major release of Mbed TLS
(TF-PSA-Crypto 1.0 + Mbed TLS 4,0). (Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS will remain
supported with its current feature set until at least Q2 2027.) Please
reply to this thread or on the GitHub issue linked below. If you wish to
leave feedback privately, you can reply privately and your feedback will
be anonymized before sharing outside Arm.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/9164
We are considering fully removing DES, including 3DES, from the library.
Is any DES variant still relevant to Mbed TLS users these days? If you
want Mbed TLS 4 to include DES, please let us know what you're using it for.
Reasons to remove: it's long obsolete, and no longer accepted even by
NIST except to handle legacy data. Removing it would be one less module
to support and would allow generic block cipher code to focus on modern
ciphers with 128-bit blocks.
Best regards,
--
Gilles Peskine
Mbed TLS developer
I am trying to build *https://github.com/ithewei/libhv
<https://github.com/ithewei/libhv>* with MBEDTLS on Windows but it doesn't
have include and library define options on *CMake*. When I ask them with an
issue on *GitHub*, they said I need to use *"Default Search Path"*. I
installed it with *cmake --build . --config Release --target INSTALL *and I
can see it in *Program Files/MBed TLS. *I think I need to define an
environment variable. But what is correct names for includes and libraries ?
Hi Team,
Need support on one the below query. I had previously raised this in issue #9116 : Client certificate verify · Issue #9116 · Mbed-TLS/mbedtls · GitHub<https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/9116> .However I was asked to redirect the query to the mbedTLS support.
Q#1 : I have a client certificate chain (end entity cert, intermediate cert and root cert) and I have got 1 public key (extracted from root CA cert) on my server. Is there any way in mbedTLS where I can validate the client certificate using just the public key of the root CA and not the whole root CA certificate on my server?
As per my understanding of CA and certificate validation we would need a whole CA cert and not just the public key of the root certificate. However, I would like to know if there are any API's in mbedTLS for this validation?
Thanks,
Sushma
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I am testing a test program in an Ubuntu VM, and I have an issue.
I started by configuring MbedTLS in "full" mode (scripts/config.py
full), but in that case the linker fails, "in function
`psa_load_builtin_key_into_slot`, psa_crypto_slot_management.c:
undefined reference to 'mbedtls_psa_platform_get_builtin_key`.
I can suppress the error by editing `include\mbedtls\mbedtls_config.h`
and removing the option `MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_BUILTIN_KEYS`. The compile
succeeds, but the call to `psa_crypto_init` fails when initializing the
RNG module.
I am struggling. I must be making some mistake, I will keep trying to
understand, but I would appreciate a little bit of help!
-- Christian Huitema
Hello Mbed TLS team,
Mbed TLS 3.6 introduced the first UTF-8 characters “±” in source code, see mbedtls_config.h, line 4179:
* at the same pace. The typical accuracy of an RTC crystal is ±100 to ±20 parts
Is this intended?
Thanks
Stephan
The specification of the "psa_verify_message" function is simple enough:
pass a key ID, an algorithm ID, the data that were signed, the signature
received from the peer, and receive a status. There is just one tiny
problem: in the application, the algorithm ID is specified as a 16 bit
TLS SignatureScheme
(https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/tls-parameters.xhtml#tls-si…),
which is not quite the same as "psa_algorithm_t". Is there a simple way
to covert from TLS SignatureScheme to PSA ALgorithm identifier? Maybe a
two columns table?
-- Christian Huitema
Hi,
I have an inhouse developed secure authentication program that uses certificate for authentication. I have used mbedtls library for the x.509 certificate verification purpose. In our custom PKI we have only three level of certificates, Root-CA -> Intermediate-CA -> Device-Cert.
The embedded device has very limited memory, so instead of sending whole certificate chain, the devices communicates intermediate_CA and device cert (in der format base64 encoded) in separate packet. Root-CA will be available on node as trusted-ca. Intermediate is verified against Root; then device cert is verified against intermediate.
The problem is, the poc developed on linux platform is working fine - but on embedded platform I encounter either 0x3b00(parsing failed) or 0x2700(with flag 8). Also the error code are inconsistent.
I verified the integrity of packet with certificate using crc16. So no chance of certificate getting corrupted. Also verified the certificate's base64 format integrity using crc16.
All certificates are sha256WithRSAEncryption; RSA Public-Key: (4096 bit)
Attached config.h on target platform for reference - could you help me if anything wrong with configuration.
While trying to trace, the flag was set from x509_crt.c from below code.
/* No parent? We're done here */
if( parent == NULL )
{
printf("NO_PARENT\r\n");
*flags |= MBEDTLS_X509_BADCERT_NOT_TRUSTED;
return( 0 );
}
Any clue would be helpful.
Thanks,
Gopi Krishnan
Hi, I'm having an issue with some code using Mbed TLS and I was pointed to this mailing list as the correct place to ask for support. Please let me know if I should ask somewhere else. I'm trying to connect to my local government's website via a Raspberry Pi Pico, using a TLS client based on lwIP and altcp_tls. It's based off of the example from the Raspberry Pi team here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples/tree/master/pico_w/wifi/tls_cl… . My Mbed TLS config is the same as what they have there, aside from some extra defines I added for debugging. The issue I am facing is that while various hosts work fine (e.g. postman-echo.com for testing), when I attempt to connect to my local council's website I get a TLS handshake error. My client has TLS verification disabled for the moment, but I have tried with the correct root certificates as well. The error I receive is mbedtls_ssl_handshake failed: -30592 I cloned down the mbed_tls repo, and had a similar issue with ssl_client1 -- i.e. works on postman-echo, not for my government, with mbedtls_ssl_handshake returning the error. Notably however, the error code in that instance was -31488. Interestingly, ssl_client2 works flawlessly with both hosts. I wasn't quite sure what part of ssl_client2 would cause it to work with my government host, as it's several thousand lines long, but I'm sure the answer is in there somewhere. I've attached a trace taken with debug logging level 4 on my Pico which shows where the TLS handshake is failing. I'd really appreciate any guidance of areas to troubleshoot next. Thanks, Jay
Hello,
I am referencing the Mbed TLS (v3.5) implementation for key slots & how they interact with the PSA key management APIs. In the PSA documentation<https://arm-software.github.io/psa-api/crypto/1.1/overview/implementation.h…>, sections 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 describe that persistent keys (that are handled according to the Memory cleanup rule) would have to be loaded from NVM on each use of the key, unless PSA_KEY_USAGE_CACHE is set.
However, I'm not certain I see this followed in the Mbed TLS code. 'psa_export_key()' is the simplest example. This function retrieves and locks the key slot for the requested key ID using 'psa_get_and_lock_key_slot_with_policy()' - this function may retrieve the persistent key material from NVM if necessary (it seems to return sooner if it finds that persistent key in a slot already). The remainder of psa_export_key() copies the key material from the slot directly to the output buffer, but it never removes the key material from the slot.
My understanding was that the key material should be removed from the slot unless PSA_KEY_USAGE_CACHE was set. Can anyone clear this up for me? Does this just mean that the reference implementation does not follow the memory cleanup rule, or is the slot buffer cleared at some later point for the persistent key?
Thank you,
Kevin Zak
Hi All,
A gentle reminder that the US-Europe timezone-friendly MBed TLS Tech forum
is next Monday at 4:30 PM UK time. Invite details can be found on the
online calendar here <https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/>.
If you have any topics, please let Dave Rodgman know. :)
Best regards,
Don Harbin
TrustedFirmware Community Manager
don.harbin(a)linaro.org
Dear Mbed TLS users,
We recently announced the release of Mbed TLS 3.6.0, starting the 3.6 long-term support branch. We intend for this to be the last 3.x feature release. Mbed TLS 3.6.x will as usual receive bug fixes (including security improvements), but no new features. This will allow the Mbed TLS team to focus on preparing the next major release, Mbed TLS 4.0, planned for 2025 (expect further updates when the timeline becomes more precise).
The main focus of Mbed TLS 4.0 is to complete the migration to PSA crypto APIs. This means that most mbedtls_xxx cryptography APIs will be removed. We expect mbedtls_x509 and mbedtls_ssl to change in relatively minor, but sometimes incompatible ways. Alongside this technical change, the crypto APIs will be published as a separate product, TF-PSA-Crypto<https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/TF-PSA-Crypto> (very early preview so far), while the X.509 and TLS libraries will continue to be called Mbed TLS.
The work on 4.0 will happen on the development branch in the mbedtls repository, so you can expect more instability than usual on that branch. The mbedtls-3.6<https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/tree/mbedtls-3.6> branch is available if you want the latest patches on Mbed TLS 3.6 LTS.
As usual, you can see our high-level plans in the roadmap<https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/project/roadmap/>, and in more detail on GitHub<https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues>. Look for issues labeled api-break<https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aa…> (note that we haven't filed issues on all topics yet).
We will launch some consultations on the mbed-tls mailing list<https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman3/lists/mbed-tls.lists.trustedfirm…> soon, to gather community input on some topics.
Many Thanks,
Nathan Sircombe
(On behalf of the Mbed TLS development team)
Hi Mbed TLS list,
I’d just like to introduce myself to the wider Mbed TLS community.
I’ve recently joined the Mbed TLS team as the Engineering Manager for the Arm team. Although I’m new to this project, I’m not new to Arm having worked here for a while on a number of closed and open source library projects.
I look forward to working with you, and meeting some of you on our regular community calls.
Cheers,
Nathan.
p.s. my GitHub usid is nSircombe (https://github.com/nSircombe)
hello:
Recently, I am transplanting mbedtls from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system. The compilation operating system is ubuntu20.4. The screenshot below is the code I use mbedtls(version number: 2.24.0). In the API mbedtls_rsa_gen_key implementation, there is a line of code that is ""MBEDTLS_MPI_CHK( mbedtls_mpi_lset( &ctx ->E, exponent ) );"", the program crashed at the memset in mbedtls_mpi_set during execution. This has not happened on 32-bit platforms before, so I would like to ask whether it has something to do with the platform used or whether I call the API. It’s a question about how to use it, thank you very much
Hi, I am trying to identify the API available by looking up exported symbols from the built shared libraries libmbedcrypto.so ,libmbedtls.so and libmbedx509.so. I noticed that many of the exported functions are not documented here https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/projects/api/en/development/ . My question really is, are those functions exported through the shared libraries intended to be so ? For example, function mbedtls_mpi_core_add does not seem to be part of the API but it is exported. Is this intentional ? It's not uncommon that functions would be exported but not part of the API, I just wanted to get some clarification if possible regarding the reasons for doing so in the case of MbedTLS. Thanks Ahmed
Hi,
I am sorry but I need to know test case scenarios to verify what is
supported in the recent MBedTLS stack - what should be tested.
Objective is that we cover MBedTLS code the maximum.
Since I am a new learner, I need to build the test cases from
scratch. So I thought to first find from stack what TLS ciphers suites
/ digest it supports, what are the different keysize, and protocols -
TLSvX (where x=1,2 or 3). Then build certificates related to the same
and verify the data as found. Are there other ways to find different
features in the current MBedTLs stack and verify each one of them?
Is this approach the right way - do we have known test case scenarios
to verify? Any other additional help will aid us out.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Prakash
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Hello,
I am trying to add TLS 1.3 support to a curl project
(https://github.com/MAntoniak/curl). As a result, it has two questions.
The first refers to the error code
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_RECEIVED_NEW_SESSION_TICKET. This suggests an error
receiving a new session ticket. I couldn't find anything else in the
documentation. However, in the ssl_cllient2.c example application (line
2638), this code is used as a message to the application about a new
session ticket. This makes me unsure whether it would be correct to
continue receiving application data normally.
The second question relates to the receipt of tickets. The curl project
does not store session tickets, so it uses the
MBEDTLS_SSL_SESSION_TICKETS_DISABLED flag. If this is the case, why do
we nevertheless receive a new ticket from the server?
Thank you for your reply.
Michał Antoniak
Hello,
I have an implementation in OpenSSL and am trying to recreate it using
MbedTLS. One of the differences in these two I have yet to overcome is
the following:
Is there a way to treat mbedtls_x509_crt simply as a certificate store?
Say I have some PEM data, parse it into a temporary mbedtls_x509_crt and
then I would like to append this certificate to said mbedtls_x509_crt
certificate store.
The following is stated in the docs of mbedtls_x509_crt:
> struct mbedtls_x509_crt *next
Next certificate in the linked list that constitutes the CA chain.
NULL indicates the end of the list. Do not modify this field directly.
Is there a way to achieve this if it's advised not to modify the field
directly?
Thank you in advance,
Roman.
Hey All,
I am trying to generate ECDSA public-private key pair for self-signed
certificate, and came across these examples
In gen_key.c
<https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/bee96566dac936e7fdfa7aa18b6a1f6767…>,
"mbedtls_ecp_gen_key()" is used
In ecdsa.c
<https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/bee96566dac936e7fdfa7aa18b6a1f6767…>,
"mbedtls_ecdsa_genkey()" is used.
My questions are:
- Which function should be used? (It seems mbedtls_ecdsa_genkey() is
just a wrapper of mbedtls_ecp_gen_key()?)
- If using mbedtls_ecdsa_genkey(), what are the steps to write the
public key into PEM format? (My understanding is that I define a
mbedtls_pk_context, and convert its address into mbedtls_ecdsa_context *,
and pass the pointer into mbedtls_ecdsa_genkey, and then call
mbedtls_ecdsa_genkey(), is this correct?)
Thanks,
Tom
Hi Satya,
Is this issue related to the one described in your previous email “[mbed-tls] EAP TLS - TLSv1.2 Record Layer: Alert (Level: Fatal, Description: Unknown CA)”?
Kind regards,
Janos
From: Satya Prakash Prasad <satyaprakash.developer.unix(a)gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 12 April 2024 at 16:27
To: Janos Follath <Janos.Follath(a)arm.com>
Subject: Re: [mbed-tls] CA Unknown Certificate
Hi Janos,
Kindly note that I have already provided the same in my initial email. Please refer the same for your reference:
Please note that we need to give CN value different for Root and Server / Client (since I am trying got mutual trusted certificate. You can also verify the same in below way:
First console :
# openssl s_server -cert crt1/server.crt -key crt1/server.key -WWW -port 12345 -CAfile crt1/trusted_ca.eap.pem -verify_return_err
or -Verify 1
verify depth is 1, must return a certificate
Using default temp DH parameters
ACCEPT
Second Console:
#touch test.txt
# openssl s_server -cert crt1/server.crt -key crt1/server.key -WWW -port 12345 -CAfile crt1/trusted_ca.eap.pem -verify_return_err
or -Verify 1
verify depth is 1, must return a certificate
Using default temp DH parameters
ACCEPT
On First Console we receive:
# openssl s_server -cert crt1/server.crt -key crt1/server.key -WWW -port 12345 -CAfile crt1/trusted_ca.eap.pem -verify_return_err
or -Verify 1
verify depth is 1, must return a certificate
Using default temp DH parameters
ACCEPT
depth=1 C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = FoobarCA
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = Foobar
verify return:1
FILE:test.txt
Root CA Key
# openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
..+++++
....+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Verifying - Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Server Private Key
# openssl genrsa -out server.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
........................................+++++
.................................................................................................+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Client Private Key
# openssl genrsa -out client.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
...............................+++++
..........................+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Root CA Certificate from Root CA Key
# openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key ca.key.pem -sha256 -days 365 -out
ca.cert.pem -subj /C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=FoobarCA
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Server CSR & Certificate from Server Private Key
# openssl req -new -sha256 -key server.key.pem -subj
/C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=Foobar -out server.csr
# openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.cert.pem -CAkey ca.key.pem
-CAcreateserial -out server.cert.pem -days 365 -sha256
Signature ok
subject=C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = Foobar
Getting CA Private Key
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Client CSR & Certificate from Client Private Key
# openssl req -new -sha256 -key client.key.pem -subj
/C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=Foobar -out client.csr
# openssl x509 -req -in client.csr -CA ca.cert.pem -CAkey ca.key.pem
-CAcreateserial -out client.cert.pem -days 365 -sha256
Signature ok
subject=C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = Foobar
Getting CA Private Key
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Regards,
Prakash
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 5:55 PM Janos Follath <Janos.Follath(a)arm.com<mailto:Janos.Follath@arm.com>> wrote:
Hi Prakash,
Thank you for sharing the details about how you generated the certificates. Could you please share the command line for the server and the client as well?
Kind regards,
Janos
From: Satya Prakash Prasad via mbed-tls <mbed-tls(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org<mailto:mbed-tls@lists.trustedfirmware.org>>
Date: Friday, 12 April 2024 at 05:03
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Subject: [mbed-tls] CA Unknown Certificate
Hi,
Please note that while using MBedTLS 3.6.0, when we are trying to
verify server / client connection using self-signed mutually trusted
certificates we are always getting a CA Unknown Certificate error code
46 alert message.
Root CA Key
# openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
..+++++
....+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Verifying - Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Server Private Key
# openssl genrsa -out server.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
........................................+++++
.................................................................................................+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Client Private Key
# openssl genrsa -out client.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
...............................+++++
..........................+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Root CA Certificate
# openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key ca.key.pem -sha256 -days 365 -out
ca.cert.pem -subj /C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=FoobarCA
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Server CSR & Certificate
# openssl req -new -sha256 -key server.key.pem -subj
/C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=Foobar -out server.csr
# openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.cert.pem -CAkey ca.key.pem
-CAcreateserial -out server.cert.pem -days 365 -sha256
Signature ok
subject=C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = Foobar
Getting CA Private Key
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Client CSR & Certificate
# openssl req -new -sha256 -key client.key.pem -subj
/C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=Foobar -out client.csr
# openssl x509 -req -in client.csr -CA ca.cert.pem -CAkey ca.key.pem
-CAcreateserial -out client.cert.pem -days 365 -sha256
Signature ok
subject=C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = Foobar
Getting CA Private Key
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
So we have used Root CA Certificatet as trusted certificate but during
handshake steps we see client reporting "Certificate Unknown'' alert
error message 46?
TLSv1.2 Record Layer: Alert (Level: Fatal, Description: Certificate Unknown)
Description: Certificate Unknown (46)
Can you please let us know the issue we are doing in creating the
certificates or it can also be some wrong steps / configuration while
compiling the 3.6.0 release?
Regards,
Prakash
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Hi,
Please note that while using MBedTLS 3.6.0, when we are trying to
verify server / client connection using self-signed mutually trusted
certificates we are always getting a CA Unknown Certificate error code
46 alert message.
Root CA Key
# openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
..+++++
....+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Verifying - Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Server Private Key
# openssl genrsa -out server.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
........................................+++++
.................................................................................................+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Client Private Key
# openssl genrsa -out client.key.pem 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
...............................+++++
..........................+++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
Root CA Certificate
# openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key ca.key.pem -sha256 -days 365 -out
ca.cert.pem -subj /C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=FoobarCA
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Server CSR & Certificate
# openssl req -new -sha256 -key server.key.pem -subj
/C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=Foobar -out server.csr
# openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.cert.pem -CAkey ca.key.pem
-CAcreateserial -out server.cert.pem -days 365 -sha256
Signature ok
subject=C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = Foobar
Getting CA Private Key
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
Client CSR & Certificate
# openssl req -new -sha256 -key client.key.pem -subj
/C=US/ST=CA/L=Somewhere/O=Someone/CN=Foobar -out client.csr
# openssl x509 -req -in client.csr -CA ca.cert.pem -CAkey ca.key.pem
-CAcreateserial -out client.cert.pem -days 365 -sha256
Signature ok
subject=C = US, ST = CA, L = Somewhere, O = Someone, CN = Foobar
Getting CA Private Key
Enter pass phrase for ca.key.pem:^1234^
So we have used Root CA Certificatet as trusted certificate but during
handshake steps we see client reporting "Certificate Unknown'' alert
error message 46?
TLSv1.2 Record Layer: Alert (Level: Fatal, Description: Certificate Unknown)
Description: Certificate Unknown (46)
Can you please let us know the issue we are doing in creating the
certificates or it can also be some wrong steps / configuration while
compiling the 3.6.0 release?
Regards,
Prakash
Public key operations like "psa_verify_message" use a "key-id" argument
to represent the public key. Is there a simple way to obtain or register
that key-id using the "cert->pk" member of a parsed certificate?
-- Christian Huitema
Hi All,
Apologies for the long email. I am adding all the 3 projects (TF-M, mbedTLS and Zephyr) to the mail chain because the issues I discuss below are inter-connected and affect all the three projects.
From mbedtls 3.5.0 version, the mbedtls project has migrated to auto-generated psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.h file.
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/development/docs/psa-driver-exampl…https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/development/docs/proposed/psa-driv…
On TF-M, mbed-crypto, there are 2 patches for the drivers given below which are still hardcoding their changes and not following the above approach.
1. PSA_CRYPTO_DRIVER_TFM_BUILTIN_KEY_LOADER (0001-Add-TF-M-Builtin-Key-Loader-driver-entry-points.patch)
2. PSA_CRYPTO_DRIVER_CC3XX (0005-Hardcode-CC3XX-entry-points.patch)
We at NXP, have migrated our psa crypto wrappers to the above approach using auto-generation. We want to maintain same code base for mbedtls for our SDK's, TFM mbed-crypto as well as align mbedTLS fork in Zephyr.
We are increasingly finding it difficult to migrate to newer versions of mbedtls because of hardcoding of above drivers. The problem is specially on the Zephyr front, where in the mbedTLS fork in zephyr these patches from tfm are applied by default.
I have queries for all the 3 projects listed below :
TF-M --> Can you please let us know what are the plans to migrate these 2 drivers in tfm to the auto-generation approach. If these patches can be migrated to make changes in jinja files rather than hardcoding in psa_crypto_driver_wrappers , things would be much easier to integrate.
Is somebody already working on it ? Are you open to accept patches for this change ?
mbedTLS --> What is the long term strategy from mbedTLS on this auto-generation ? We still have a lot of hard-coding in .jinja file rather than using drivers.json. Would mbedTLS/new PSA crypto repository start accepting patches for psa wrappers from platforms ? Can the patches which TF-M project maintains be merged in the mbedTLS ?
Zephyr --> On Zephyr front, what are the plans to align to this auto-generation approach ?
Regards,
Ruchika
I recently updated an embedded HTTPs web service using mbedtls from 2.22.0
to 3.2.1, and noticed the performance is about 30% better/faster. This is
good for sure, but I am curious, what are the changes contributing to this
improvement?
Thanks!
Hi,
It seems that in latest MbedTLS 3.6.0 following declarations have been deleted:
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_CERTIFICATE_REQUIRED
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_PEER_VERIFY_FAILED
The below function implementation is not there
mbedtls_ssl_conf_export_keys_ext_cb
Regards,
Prakash
Hi,
Referring to https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kb/how-to/generate-a-self-signed-…
I am trying to create mutual certificates for server / client self
signed certificates. As I derive from the web page the following steps
need to be followed:
Generic
gen_key type=rsa rsa_keysize=2048 filename=ca.key format=pem
cert_write selfsign=1 issuer_key=ca.key
issuer_name=CN=myserver,O=myorganization,C=NL
not_before=20130101000000 not_after=20251231235959 is_ca=1
max_pathlen=0 output_file=my_crt.crt
Server Side:
What steps to do to create the following files where server.crt is
server side certificate, sever.key is the server private key and
trusted.pem is the CA that it trusts.
server.crt, server.key, trusted.pem[trusted.pem==>is it my_crt.crt]
Do we need to create new server keys and certificates then do we need
to bundle them - I am not sure how and what steps to do?
Client Side
What steps to do to create the following file where client.crt is
client side certificate, client.key is the client private key and
trusted.pem is the CA that it trusts.
client.crt, client.key, trusted.pem[trusted.pem==>is it my_crt.crt]
Do we need to create new client keys and certificates then do we need
to bundle them - I am not sure how and what steps to do?
Objective:
Objective is that client and server should be able to connect securely
successfully using their certs
Request to provide help related to the generation of self-signed
client / server certs that can be used for SSL handshake using MBedTLS
library.
Regards,
Prakash
Hi all,
Given TLS 1.3 has added two new cipher suites in RFC 8998 (
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8998), it would be useful to add
these algorithms and ciphersuites in Mbedtls.
CipherSuite TLS_SM4_GCM_SM3 = { 0x00, 0xC6 };
CipherSuite TLS_SM4_CCM_SM3 = { 0x00, 0xC7 };
There are some posts in this topic,
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/pull/4091,
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/pull/1620. But SM2/3/4 have not been
added in recent versions(e.g., 3.6).
I have implemented SM3, SM4 as standalone code(
https://github.com/zliucd/cryptoshark), and want to port the code to
Mbedtls while supporting SM2. However, to fully support the two new cipher
suites, we need to add lots of other code. The first step is to add SM2,
SM3 and SM as standalone ciphers.
Thanks for any comments.
Zhi
Hi Mbed TLS users,
We have released Mbed TLS versions 3.6.0 LTS and 2.28.8.
These releases of Mbed TLS address several security issues, provide bug fixes, and bring other minor changes. Full details are available in the release notes (https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/releases/tag/v3.6.0, https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.28.8).
We recommend all users to consider whether they are impacted, and to upgrade appropriately.
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Hello Mbed-TLS team,
I am reaching out for guidance on an issue I've encountered while integrating MbedTLS for HTTPS requests using the coreHTTP stack alongside FreeRTOSplusTCP on an STM32F4 device. Although I have successfully implemented an HTTP client, moving to HTTPS has presented some challenges.
My approach has included several adjustments to the mbedtls_config file, such as:
- Integrating a Random Number Generator (RNG) from STM32 within the mbed_Entropy_poll function.
- Utilizing the calloc and free functions provided by FreeRTOS.
- Modifying the search algorithm to correctly handle null-terminated PEM certificates.
Despite these efforts, I am unable to establish a connection to the server, with the process consistently failing during the TLS handshake phase. Specifically, the client hello message is transmitted from my device, but no response is received from the server, resulting in an MBEDTLS_INTERNAL_ERROR.
Enclosed with this email are my mbedtls_config file and a detailed account of the issue as posted on the FreeRTOS forum<https://forums.freertos.org/t/integration-of-ssl-in-corehttp/19561/11>. While I do not expect a full code review<https://github.com/AshvajitP/Eth_FreeRTOS_F4>, any insights into potential causes for this type of handshake failure would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Regards,
Ashvajit Prasad
I saw the following comment when configuring Record Size Limit Extension (RFC 8449) in `mbedtls_config.h` [1]:
> This extension is currently in development and must NOT be used except for testing purposes.
Is this still accurate? What functionality is missing for full RFC 8449 support? Is this feature planned for a specific date?
[1] https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/611f899c0c9d397baedfaec34ea0861ad2…
Hi,
We are integrating https://github.com/prplfoundation/hostap code into
our project that makes uses of crypto and SSL functionality. Their
code is so written that they have interfaces defined where crypto and
SSL 3rd party algorithms can be called and implemented.
We are stuck implementing those APIs interfaces using MBedTLS and in
need of help for its implementation. Referring to the below set of
interfaces as defined in
https://github.com/prplfoundation/hostap/blob/master/src/crypto/tls_none.c
we need to implement required code for MBedTLS.
I am in need help implementing below API:
struct tls_connection * tls_connection_init(void *tls_ctx) where
tls_connection is below defined type [user defined type - hope is
correct implementation]:
struct tls_connection {
mbedtls_ssl_context *ssl;
keyman_creds *cr;
};
We have made the below implementation
struct tls_connection * tls_connection_init(void *ssl_ctx)
{
mbedtls_ssl_context *mssl_ctx = ssl_ctx;
struct tls_connection *conn;
conn = os_zalloc(sizeof(*conn));
if (conn == NULL) {
return NULL;
}
conn->ssl = mssl_ctx ;
conn->cr = NULL;
mbedtls_ssl_set_bio(ssl_ctx, NULL, net_send, net_recv, NULL);
return conn;
}
If my above implementation is correct please let me know how to
implement our own net_send and net_recv function. There are many
buffer declaration in mbedtls_ssl_context I am not sue what algorithm
to use to read complete / remaining bytes using internal data
structure :
int net_recv(void *ctx, unsigned char *buf, size_t len)
{
/* how to implement */
}
int net_send(void *ctx, const unsigned char *buf, size_t len)
{
/* how to implement */
}
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Prakash