Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2018-06-21

[PATCH v2][RESEND] X.509: unpack RSA signatureValue field from BIT STRING

From: Maciej S. Szmigiero <hidden>
Date: 2018-06-02 19:12:12
Also in: keyrings, linux-crypto, lkml

On 19.05.2018 14:23, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
The signatureValue field of a X.509 certificate is encoded as a BIT STRING.
For RSA signatures this BIT STRING is of so-called primitive subtype, which
contains a u8 prefix indicating a count of unused bits in the encoding.

We have to strip this prefix from signature data, just as we already do for
key data in x509_extract_key_data() function.

This wasn't noticed earlier because this prefix byte is zero for RSA key
sizes divisible by 8. Since BIT STRING is a big-endian encoding adding zero
prefixes has no bearing on its value.

The signature length, however was incorrect, which is a problem for RSA
implementations that need it to be exactly correct (like AMD CCP).
Any progress here?
This simple patch has already been submitted 3 times in last 3+ months...
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