On 7/25/2018 10:47 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
On Jul 25, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Ken Goldman <kgoldman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a certificate with a non-standard public key algorithm -rsaesOaep. See snippet #2.
With openssl 1.0, I can validate the certificate chain. With openssl 1.1 it fails with the error X509_V_ERR_EE_KEY_TOO_SMALL. See dump #1.
I believe that this is due to new 1.1 code x509_vfy.c:check_key_level() calling X509_get0_pubkey(). That call will fail for the non-standard algorithm.
The certificate is for old vendor hardware that cannot be updated. What are my choices?
- Remain on 1.0
- Some configuration option?
- Something else?
The immediate cause is the order of the checks in check_key_level().
It first checks for a supported key, and only then short-circuits
the logic at level <= 0 (my fault). Perhaps level 0 should not be
strict in this way, in which case we might reverse the order of
then (pkey == NULL) and (level <= 0) tests:
static int check_key_level(X509_STORE_CTX *ctx, X509 *cert)
{
EVP_PKEY *pkey = X509_get0_pubkey(cert);
int level = ctx->param->auth_level;
/* Unsupported or malformed keys are not secure */
if (pkey == NULL)
return 0;
if (level <= 0)
return 1;
if (level > NUM_AUTH_LEVELS)
level = NUM_AUTH_LEVELS;
return EVP_PKEY_security_bits(pkey) >= minbits_table[level - 1];
}
If you're suggesting that altering the above code to do the level check
before the call to get pkey, I think that would fix my problem.
... if I can set level to a negative value. How do I set level? Is
there an API or a configuration file.
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