Updating RSA public key generation and signature verification from 1.1.1 to 3.0

Tomas Mraz tomas at openssl.org
Fri Sep 30 06:21:35 UTC 2022


Hi,

unfortunately I do not see anything wrong with the code. Does the
EVP_DigestVerifyFinal return 0 or negative value? I do not think this
is a bug in OpenSSL as this API is thoroughly tested and it is highly
improbable that there would be a bug in the ECDSA verification through
this API.

I am currently out of ideas on what could be wrong or how to
investigate further. Perhaps someone else can chime in on what can be
wrong?

Tomas

On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 19:22 +0000, GonzalezVillalobos, Diego wrote:
> [AMD Official Use Only - General]
> 
> Hello Tomas,
> 
> So, I made sure that px_size and py_size are equal to the group order
> (48). I was able to verify successfully using our previous method
> (deprecated) with the new key generation method, but I'm still not
> able to get the digestverify to work successfully. As a reminder this
> is how we were verifying before:
> 
> // Determine if SHA_TYPE is 256 bit or 384 bit
> if (parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_RSA_SHA256 ||
> parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA256 ||parent_cert-
> >pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA256)
>         {
>             sha_type = SHA_TYPE_256;
>             sha_digest = sha_digest_256;
>             sha_length = sizeof(hmac_sha_256);
>         }
> else if (parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_RSA_SHA384 ||
> parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA384 ||
> parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA384)
>         {
>             sha_type = SHA_TYPE_384;
>             sha_digest = sha_digest_384;
>             sha_length = sizeof(hmac_sha_512);
>         }
>         else
>         {
>             break;
>         }
> 
>         // 1. SHA256 hash the cert from Version through pub_key
> parameters
>         // Calculate the digest of the input message   rsa.c ->
> rsa_pss_verify_msg()
>         // SHA256/SHA384 hash the cert from the [Version:pub_key]
> params
>         uint32_t pub_key_offset = offsetof(sev_cert, sig_1_usage); 
> // 16 + sizeof(SEV_PUBKEY)
>         if (!digest_sha((uint8_t *)child_cert, pub_key_offset,
> sha_digest, sha_length, sha_type)) {
>             break;
>         }
> if ((parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA256) ||
>                      (parent_cert->pub_key_algo ==
> SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA384) ||
>                      (parent_cert->pub_key_algo ==
> SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA256)  ||
>                      (parent_cert->pub_key_algo ==
> SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA384)) {      // ecdsa.c -> sign_verify_msg
>                 ECDSA_SIG *tmp_ecdsa_sig = ECDSA_SIG_new();
>                 BIGNUM *r_big_num = BN_new();
>                 BIGNUM *s_big_num = BN_new();
> 
>                 // Store the x and y components as separate BIGNUM
> objects. The values in the
>                 // SEV certificate are little-endian, must reverse
> bytes before storing in BIGNUM
>                 r_big_num = BN_lebin2bn(cert_sig[i].ecdsa.r,
> sizeof(sev_ecdsa_sig::r), r_big_num);    // LE to BE
>                 s_big_num = BN_lebin2bn(cert_sig[i].ecdsa.s,
> sizeof(sev_ecdsa_sig::s), s_big_num);
> 
>                 // Calling ECDSA_SIG_set0() transfers the memory
> management of the values to
>                 // the ECDSA_SIG object, and therefore the values
> that have been passed
>                 // in should not be freed directly after this
> function has been called
>                 if (ECDSA_SIG_set0(tmp_ecdsa_sig, r_big_num,
> s_big_num) != 1) {
>                     BN_free(s_big_num);                   // Frees
> BIGNUMs manually here
>                     BN_free(r_big_num);
>                     ECDSA_SIG_free(tmp_ecdsa_sig);
>                     continue;
>                 }
>                 EC_KEY *tmp_ec_key =
> EVP_PKEY_get1_EC_KEY(parent_signing_key); // Make a local key so you
> can free it later
>                 if (ECDSA_do_verify(sha_digest, (uint32_t)sha_length,
> tmp_ecdsa_sig, tmp_ec_key) != 1) {
>                     EC_KEY_free(tmp_ec_key);
>                     ECDSA_SIG_free(tmp_ecdsa_sig);      // Frees
> BIGNUMs too
>                     continue;
>                 }
> 
>                 found_match = true;
>                 EC_KEY_free(tmp_ec_key);
>                 ECDSA_SIG_free(tmp_ecdsa_sig);      // Frees BIGNUMs
> too
>                 break;
>             }
> 
> 
> Digest sha function:
> bool digest_sha(const void *msg, size_t msg_len, uint8_t *digest,
>                 size_t digest_len, SHA_TYPE sha_type)
> {
>     bool ret = false;
> 
>     do {    //TODO 384 vs 512 is all a mess
>         if ((sha_type == SHA_TYPE_256 && digest_len !=
> SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH)/* ||
>             (sha_type == SHA_TYPE_384 && digest_len !=
> SHA384_DIGEST_LENGTH)*/)
>                 break;
> 
>         if (sha_type == SHA_TYPE_256) {
>             SHA256_CTX context;
> 
>             if (SHA256_Init(&context) != 1)
>                 break;
>             if (SHA256_Update(&context, (void *)msg, msg_len) != 1)
>                 break;
>             if (SHA256_Final(digest, &context) != 1)
>                 break;
>         }
>         else if (sha_type == SHA_TYPE_384) {
>             SHA512_CTX context;
> 
>             if (SHA384_Init(&context) != 1)
>                 break;
>             if (SHA384_Update(&context, (void *)msg, msg_len) != 1)
>                 break;
>             if (SHA384_Final(digest, &context) != 1)
>                 break;
>         }
> 
>         ret = true;
>     } while (0);
> 
>     return ret;
> }
> 
> This works using the new EC EVP key generation.
> The current verification method keeps failing:
> 
> if ((parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA256) ||
>                      (parent_cert->pub_key_algo ==
> SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA384) ||
>                      (parent_cert->pub_key_algo ==
> SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA256)  ||
>                      (parent_cert->pub_key_algo ==
> SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA384)) {      // ecdsa.c -> sign_verify_msg
>                 
>                 ECDSA_SIG *tmp_ecdsa_sig = ECDSA_SIG_new();
>                 BIGNUM *r_big_num = BN_new();
>                 BIGNUM *s_big_num = BN_new();
>                 uint32_t sig_len;
>                 unsigned char* der_sig = NULL;;
> 
>                 // Store the x and y components as separate BIGNUM
> objects. The values in the
>                 // SEV certificate are little-endian, must reverse
> bytes before storing in BIGNUM
>                 r_big_num = BN_lebin2bn(cert_sig[i].ecdsa.r,
> sizeof(sev_ecdsa_sig::r), r_big_num);    // LE to BE
>                 s_big_num = BN_lebin2bn(cert_sig[i].ecdsa.s,
> sizeof(sev_ecdsa_sig::s), s_big_num);
> 
>                 // Calling ECDSA_SIG_set0() transfers the memory
> management of the values to
>                 // the ECDSA_SIG object, and therefore the values
> that have been passed
>                 // in should not be freed directly after this
> function has been called
>                 if (ECDSA_SIG_set0(tmp_ecdsa_sig,
> r_big_num,s_big_num) != 1) {
>                     BN_free(s_big_num); // FreesBIGNUMs manually here
>                     BN_free(r_big_num);
>                     ECDSA_SIG_free(tmp_ecdsa_sig);
>                     break;
>                 }
> 
>                 int der_sig_len = i2d_ECDSA_SIG(tmp_ecdsa_sig,
> &der_sig);
>                 // der_sig = static_cast<unsigned
> char*>(OPENSSL_malloc(der_sig_len));
>                 // unsigned char* der_iter = der_sig;
>                 // der_sig_len = i2d_ECDSA_SIG(tmp_ecdsa_sig,
> &der_iter); // <= bugfix here
> 
> 
>                 if (der_sig_len == 0) {
>                     cout << "sig length invalid" << endl;
>                     break;
>                 }
> 
>                 if (der_sig == NULL) {
>                     cout << "sig generation failed" << endl;
>                     break;
>                 }
> 
>                 // loop through the array elements
>                 for (size_t i = 0; i < der_sig_len; i++) {
>                     cout << der_sig[i] << ' ';
>                 }
> 
>                 verify_md_ctx = EVP_MD_CTX_new();
> 
> 
>                 if (!verify_md_ctx) {
>                     cout << "Error md verify context " << endl;;
>                     break;
>                 }
> 
>                 if (EVP_DigestVerifyInit(verify_md_ctx, NULL,
> (parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA256 ||
> parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA256) ?
> EVP_sha256(): EVP_sha384(), NULL, parent_signing_key) <= 0) {
>                     cout << "Init fails " << endl;
>                     break;
>                 }
> 
>                 if (EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate(verify_md_ctx, (uint8_t
> *)child_cert, pub_key_offset) <= 0){    // Calls SHA256_UPDATE
>                     cout << "updating digest fails" << endl;
>                     break;
>                 }
> 
>                 int ret = EVP_DigestVerifyFinal(verify_md_ctx,
> der_sig, der_sig_len);
>                 if (ret == 0) {
>                     cout << "EC Verify digest fails" << endl;
>                     break;
>                 } else if (ret < 0) {
>                     printf("Failed Final Verify
> %s\n",ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(),NULL));
>                     cout << "EC Verify error" << endl;
>                     break;
>                 }
> 
>                 found_match = true;
>                 cout << "SEV EC verification Succesful" << endl;
> 
>                 if (verify_md_ctx)
>                     EVP_MD_CTX_free(verify_md_ctx);
> 
>                 break;
>             }
> 
> The only difference still is using the der signature; besides that,
> it is the same. Could it be a bug?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Diego Gonzalez
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Mraz <tomas at openssl.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:12 AM
> To: GonzalezVillalobos, Diego <Diego.GonzalezVillalobos at amd.com>;
> openssl-users at openssl.org
> Subject: Re: Updating RSA public key generation and signature
> verification from 1.1.1 to 3.0
> 
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> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> comments below.
> 
> On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 22:12 +0000, GonzalezVillalobos, Diego wrote:
> > [AMD Official Use Only - General]
> > 
> > Hello Tomas,
> > 
> > I generated the key as you suggested, and I am no longer getting an
> > error message! Thank you for that. Here is how I'm generating the
> > key
> > now:
> > 
> > // SEV certificate are little-endian, must reverse bytes before 
> > generating key
> >             if ((cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA256)
> > ||
> >                 (cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA384))
> > {
> >                 //Grab x param and flip bytes to BE
> >                 memcpy(px, &cert->pub_key.ecdsa.qx,
> > ec_group_order);
> >                 if(!sev::reverse_bytes(px, sizeof(px)))
> >                     break;
> >                 //Grab y param and flip bytes to BE
> >                 memcpy(py, &cert->pub_key.ecdsa.qy,
> > ec_group_order);
> >                 if(!sev::reverse_bytes(py, sizeof(py)))
> >                     break;
> >             }
> >             else if ((cert->pub_key_algo ==
> > SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA256)  ||
> >                     (cert->pub_key_algo ==
> > SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA384)) 
> > {
> >                 //Grab x param and flip bytes to BE
> >                 memcpy(px, &cert->pub_key.ecdh.qx, ec_group_order);
> >                 if(!sev::reverse_bytes(px, sizeof(px)))
> >                     break;
> >                 //Grab y param and flip bytes to BE
> >                 memcpy(py, &cert->pub_key.ecdh.qy, ec_group_order);
> >                 if(!sev::reverse_bytes(py, sizeof(py)))
> >                     break;
> >             }
> > 
> >             int px_size = sizeof(px)/sizeof(*px);
> >             int py_size = sizeof(py)/sizeof(*py);
> > 
> >             // Will contain x and y components
> >             unsigned char public_key_xy[1 + px_size + py_size] =
> > {0};
> > 
> >             //Add point conversion as first value
> >             public_key_xy[0] = POINT_CONVERSION_UNCOMPRESSED;
> > 
> >             //Add x components after point compression
> >             memcpy(public_key_xy + 1, px, px_size);
> >             //Add y components after x
> >             memcpy(public_key_xy + px_size + 1, py ,py_size);
> > 
> >             // int nid = EC_curve_nist2nid("P-384");   //
> > NID_secp384r1
> > 
> >             OSSL_PARAM_BLD *params_build = OSSL_PARAM_BLD_new();
> > 
> >             if ( params_build == NULL ) {
> >                 cout << "Params build fails" << endl;
> >                 break;
> >             }
> > 
> >             if (!OSSL_PARAM_BLD_push_utf8_string(params_build,
> > OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_GROUP_NAME, "P-384", 0)) {
> >                 cout<< "Push EC curve to build fails" << endl;
> >                 break;
> >             }
> > 
> >             if (!OSSL_PARAM_BLD_push_octet_string(params_build,
> > OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_PUB_KEY, public_key_xy, sizeof(public_key_xy))) {
> >                 cout << "Error: failed to push qx into param
> > build."
> > << endl;
> >                 break;
> >             }
> > 
> >             OSSL_PARAM *params =
> > OSSL_PARAM_BLD_to_param(params_build);
> > 
> >             if ( params == NULL ) {
> >                 cout << "Error: building parameters." << endl;
> >                 break;
> >             }
> > 
> >             OSSL_PARAM_BLD_free(params_build);
> > 
> >             key_gen_ctx = EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id(EVP_PKEY_EC, NULL);
> > 
> >             if(EVP_PKEY_fromdata_init(key_gen_ctx) != 1) {
> >                 cout << "failed to initialize key creation." <<
> > endl;
> >                 break;
> >             }
> > 
> >             if(EVP_PKEY_fromdata(key_gen_ctx, &evp_pub_key, 
> > EVP_PKEY_PUBLIC_KEY, params) != 1) {
> >                 cout << "key generation breaks" << endl;
> >                 printf("Failed Final Verify 
> > %s\n",ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(),NULL));
> >                 break;
> >             }
> > 
> >             if (EVP_PKEY_get_base_id(evp_pub_key) != EVP_PKEY_EC) {
> >                 cout << "wrong key type" << endl;
> >                 break;
> >             }
> >         }
> > 
> >         if (!evp_pub_key) {
> >             cout << "no evp pkey" << endl;
> >             break;
> >         }
> >         cout << "compile key succesful" << endl;
> >         cmd_ret = STATUS_SUCCESS;
> > 
> > Although the key generation works and I'm not getting a verify
> > error 
> > anymore, I am still unsuccessful on verifying the digest. It keeps 
> > failing (returning 0). Here is how I'm currently trying to do the 
> > verification.
> 
> Are you sure the px_size and py_size is equal to the group order? The
> x and y values must be padded to the group order with 0 (at the start
> because the values need to be BE).
> 
> > ECDSA_SIG *tmp_ecdsa_sig = ECDSA_SIG_new();
> >                 BIGNUM *r_big_num = BN_new();
> >                 BIGNUM *s_big_num = BN_new();
> >                 uint32_t sig_len;
> >                 unsigned char* der_sig;
> > 
> >                 // Store the x and y components as separate BIGNUM 
> > objects. The values in the
> >                 // SEV certificate are little-endian, must reverse 
> > bytes before storing in BIGNUM
> >                 r_big_num = BN_lebin2bn(cert_sig[i].ecdsa.r,
> > sizeof(sev_ecdsa_sig::r), r_big_num);    // LE to BE
> >                 s_big_num = BN_lebin2bn(cert_sig[i].ecdsa.s, 
> > sizeof(sev_ecdsa_sig::s), s_big_num);
> > 
> >                 // Calling ECDSA_SIG_set0() transfers the memory 
> > management of the values to
> >                 // the ECDSA_SIG object, and therefore the values
> > that 
> > have been passed
> >                 // in should not be freed directly after this
> > function 
> > has been called
> >                 if (ECDSA_SIG_set0(tmp_ecdsa_sig,
> > r_big_num,s_big_num) != 1) {
> >                     BN_free(s_big_num); // FreesBIGNUMs manually
> > here
> >                     BN_free(r_big_num);
> >                     ECDSA_SIG_free(tmp_ecdsa_sig);
> >                     break;
> >                 }
> 
> 
> >                 int der_sig_len = i2d_ECDSA_SIG(tmp_ecdsa_sig,
> > NULL);
> >                 der_sig = static_cast<unsigned 
> > char*>(OPENSSL_malloc(der_sig_len));
> >                 unsigned char* der_iter = der_sig;
> >                 der_sig_len = i2d_ECDSA_SIG(tmp_ecdsa_sig,
> > &der_iter); 
> > // <= bugfix here
> > 
> >                 if (der_sig_len == 0) {
> >                     cout << "sig length invalid" << endl;
> >                     break;
> >                 }
> > 
> >                 if (der_sig == NULL) {
> >                     cout << "sig generation failed" << endl;
> >                     break;
> >                 }
> > 
> 
> You do not need to call i2d_ECDSA_SIG() twice. Just assign NULL to
> der_iter and i2d_ECDSA_SIG(tmp_ecdsa_sig, &der_iter) call will
> allocate the buffer for the encoded signature for you.
> 
> 
> >                 verify_md_ctx = EVP_MD_CTX_new();
> > 
> > 
> >                 if (!verify_md_ctx) {
> >                     cout << "Error md verify context " << endl;;
> >                     break;
> >                 }
> > 
> >                 if (EVP_DigestVerifyInit(verify_md_ctx, NULL, 
> > (parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDSA_SHA256 || 
> > parent_cert->pub_key_algo == SEV_SIG_ALGO_ECDH_SHA256) ?
> > EVP_sha256(): EVP_sha384(), NULL, parent_signing_key) <= 0) {
> >                     cout << "Init fails " << endl;
> >                     break;
> >                 }
> > 
> >                 if (EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate(verify_md_ctx, (uint8_t 
> > *)child_cert, pub_key_offset) <= 0){    // Calls SHA256_UPDATE
> >                     cout << "updating digest fails" << endl;
> >                     break;
> >                 }
> > 
> >                 int ret = EVP_DigestVerifyFinal(verify_md_ctx,
> > der_sig, der_sig_len);
> >                 cout << ret << endl;
> >                 if (ret == 0) {
> >                     cout << "EC Verify digest fails" << endl;
> >                     break;
> >                 } else if (ret < 0) {
> >                     printf("Failed Final Verify 
> > %s\n",ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(),NULL));
> >                     cout << "EC Verify error" << endl;
> >                     break;
> >                 }
> > 
> >                 found_match = true;
> >                 cout << "SEV EC verification Succesful" << endl;
> > 
> > Could it be because I'm creating a ECDSA SIG object and then
> > turning 
> > it into a der format to verify? Again, suggestions would be 
> > appreciated.
> 
> No, that should be correct. The signature as produced or verified by
> the EVP_DigestSignFinal or EVP_DigestVerifyFinal should be in the DER
> encoding of the ECDSA_SIG. So you have that correct.
> 
> I do not see any apparent problem with your code apart of the remarks
> above.
> 
> --
> Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL

-- 
Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL



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