Alternative RSA implementations can be provided by defining MBEDTLS_RSA_ALT in
config.h, defining an mbedtls_rsa_context struct in a new file rsa_alt.h and
re-implementing the RSA interface specified in rsa.h.
Through the previous reworkings, the adherence to the interface is the only
implementation obligation - in particular, implementors are free to use a
different layout for the RSA context structure.
This commit extends the RSA interface by import/export calls that can be used to
setup an RSA context from a subset of the core RSA parameters (N,P,Q,D,E).
The intended workflow is the following:
1. Call mbedtls_rsa_import one or multiple times to import the core parameters.
2. Call mbedtls_rsa_complete to deduce remaining core parameters as well as any
implementation-defined internal helper variables.
The RSA context is ready for use after this call.
The import function comes in two variants mbedtls_rsa_import and
mbedtls_rsa_import_raw, the former taking pointers to MPI's as input, the latter
pointers buffers holding to big-endian encoded MPI's.
The reason for this splitting is the following: When only providing an import
function accepting const MPI's, a user trying to import raw binary data into an
RSA context has to convert these to MPI's first which before passing them to the
import function, introducing an unnecessary copy of the data in memory. The
alternative would be to have another MPI-based import-function with
move-semantics, but this would be in contrast to the rest of the library's
interfaces.
Similarly, there are functions mbedtls_rsa_export and mbedtls_rsa_export_raw for
exporting the core RSA parameters, either as MPI's or in big-endian binary
format.
The main import/export functions deliberately do not include the additional
helper values DP, DQ and QP present in ASN.1-encoded RSA private keys. To
nonetheless be able to check whether given parameters DP, DQ and QP are in
accordance with a given RSA private key, the interface is extended by a function
mbedtls_rsa_check_opt (in line with mbedtls_rsa_check_privkey,
mbedtls_rsa_check_pubkey and mbedtls_rsa_check_pub_priv). Exporting the optional
parameters is taken care of by mbedtls_export_opt (currently MPI format only).
This commit adds convenience functions to the RSA module for computing a
complete RSA private key (with fields N, P, Q, D, E, DP, DQ, QP) from a subset
of core parameters, e.g. (N, D, E).
Document the preconditions on the input and output buffers for
the PKCS1 decryption functions
- mbedtls_rsa_pkcs1_decrypt,
- mbedtls_rsa_rsaes_pkcs1_v15_decrypt
- mbedtls_rsa_rsaes_oaep_decrypt
Document the preconditions on the input and output buffers for
the PKCS1 decryption functions
- mbedtls_rsa_pkcs1_decrypt,
- mbedtls_rsa_rsaes_pkcs1_v15_decrypt
- mbedtls_rsa_rsaes_oaep_decrypt
Fixes many typos, and errors in comments.
* Clarifies many comments
* Grammar correction in config.pl help text
* Removed comment about MBEDTLS_X509_EXT_NS_CERT_TYPE.
* Comment typo fix (Dont => Don't)
* Comment typo fix (assure => ensure)
* Comment typo fix (byes => bytes)
* Added citation for quoted standard
* Comment typo fix (one complement => 1's complement)
The is some debate about whether to prefer "one's complement", "ones'
complement", or "1's complement". The more recent RFCs related to TLS
(RFC 6347, RFC 4347, etc) use " 1's complement", so I followed that
convention.
* Added missing ")" in comment
* Comment alignment
* Incorrect comment after #endif
