Hello everyone,

I'd like to draw your attention on the following patch stack (contribution from Demi Marie Obenour, thank you!):

https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/owner:demiobenour%2540gmail.com+is:open

These patches refactor the X.509 certificate parser leveraged by the trusted boot implementation in TF-A, such that the parser more closely follows the X.509 format specification [1] and ASN.1/DER encoding rules [2].

In a nutshell, this means that the X.509 parser is now stricter. Some ill-formatted certificates which TF-A would have previously accepted are now rejected.

All trusted boot tests in the TF-A OpenCI have passed with these patches but I realize that this does not cover all platforms and use cases.

Thus, I'd like to allow time for all platform maintainers that wish it to conduct their own testing and report any issue they're seeing on the mailing list. If we don't hear anything by end of Wednesday (14/12), we'll merge the patches.

Best regards, Sandrine

[1] See RFC5280, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280 [2] ITU-T X.690, https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com10/languages/X.690_1297.pdf