CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: js...@cvs.openbsd.org 2024/06/25 08:10:45
Modified files:
lib/libssl : Makefile ssl_local.h ssl_srvr.c
Log message:
Implement RSA key exchange in constant time.
RSA key exchange is known to have multiple security weaknesses,
including being potentially susceptible to padding oracle and timing
attacks.
The RSA key exchange code that we inherited from OpenSSL was riddled
with timing leaks, many of which we fixed (or minimised) early on.
However, a number of issues still remained, particularly those
related to libcrypto's RSA decryption and padding checks.
Rework the RSA key exchange code such that we decrypt with
RSA_NO_PADDING and then check the padding ourselves in constant
time. In this case, the pre-master secret is of a known length,
hence the padding is also a known length based on the size of the
RSA key. This makes it easy to implement a check that is much safer
than having RSA_private_decrypt() depad for us.
Regardless, we still strongly recommend disabling RSA key exchange
and using other key exchange methods that provide perfect forward
secrecy and do not depend on client generated keys.
Thanks to Marcel Maehren, Nurullah Erinola, Robert Merget, Juraj
Somorovsky, Joerg Schwenk and Hubert Kario for raising these issues
with us at various points in time.
ok tb@
