On 11/10/21, 15:20, "openssl-users on behalf of Dr Paul Dale" <openssl-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of pauli@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure the underlying problem is that there is a call to
> RAND_set_rand_method() or RAND_set_rand_engine() occurring (likely the
> latter).
Probably...
> These completely replace the built in RNG infrastructure with the
> RAND_METHOD/engine. If the engine then fails to produce output for any
> reason, the observed results will present.
And randomness retrieval in PKCS#11 engine is broken, because otherwise it would've gotten some randomness form the hardware token, right?
> Adding the RDRAND engine again replaces the RAND_METHOD and things begin
> working.
Yes...
> I've no idea why the PKCS#11 engine has stopped working with 3.0. It
> wasn't meant to.
This made me questioning what's going on. It's been quite some time since I updated 'pkcs11' engine for OSSL-1.1.1.
And I observe that the current version of the PKCS#11 engine does not work correctly, i.e., does not serve randomness, on OpenSSL-1.1.1 *and* 3.x.
$ OPENSSL_CONF="" openssl version
OpenSSL 3.0.0 7 sep 2021 (Library: OpenSSL 3.0.0 7 sep 2021)
$ OPENSSL_CONF="" openssl rand -engine pkcs11 -hex 8
Engine "pkcs11" set.
$ OPENSSL_CONF="" openssl-1.1 rand -engine pkcs11 -hex 8
engine "pkcs11" set.
$ OPENSSL_CONF="" ~/openssl-3/bin/openssl version
OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev (Library: OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev )
$ OPENSSL_CONF="" ~/openssl-3/bin/openssl rand -engine pkcs11 -hex 8
Engine "pkcs11" set.
$ OPENSSL_CONF="" openssl rand -hex 8
71f7744c5190385f
$
I'll bring this up with its maintainers.
Thanks!
On 11/11/21 1:36 am, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL wrote:
> Yes, it's related to https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/16996, and yes - the same solution worked.
>
> There's something wrong with how PKCS#11 engine deals with (or presents itself as) rand provider.
> In any case, removing PKCS#11 engine from the [engines] section alleviated this problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> P.S. I configured rand seed sources the standard way: "--with-rand-seed=rdcpu,os", as I think everybody does.
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