Openssl 3

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Fri Jul 24 23:46:38 AEST 2020


On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:01:41PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 22:46, The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> > Anyone trying openssl 3 against openssh?
> 
> I used to test OpenSSH head against OpenSSL head but it was broken
> enough that I didn't have time to keep up and I ended up giving up.
> Here's what I found as of a few months ago in case it provides any
> clues, I have not attempted since then:
> 
> Several months ago a commit to OpenSSL head broke OpenSSH Portable's
> AES-GCM ciphers.  I didn't have time to look at this for a while, and
> by the time I did there were at least 2 other unrelated breakages that
> muddied the waters sufficiently that I never got to the bottom of it.
> 
> I tried retesting at the hackathon and didn't get the results I
> expected: now the GCM ones worked and the NON-GCM ones didn't
> 
> After some clues from tb and a lot of time bisecting I have identified
> commits #1 and #3 below as the likely culprits.  I don't know if they
> or we are doing the wrong thing.  Can anyone tell me?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Setup to reproduce these tests at the bottom.
> 
> Commit #1: This broke OpenSSH AES GCM ciphers:
> a672a02a6443a29aa368c0d8abeebc809c1a9f28 is the first bad commit
> commit a672a02a6443a29aa368c0d8abeebc809c1a9f28
> Author: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis at oracle.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 31 21:55:16 2019 +1000
> 
>     Add gcm ciphers (aes and aria) to providers.
> 
>     The code has been modularized so that it can be shared by algorithms.
> 
>     A fixed size IV is now used instead of being allocated.
>     The IV is not set into the low level struct now until the update (it uses an
>     iv_state for this purpose).
> 
>     Hardware specific methods have been added to a PROV_GCM_HW object.
> 
>     The S390 code has been changed to just contain methods that can be
> accessed in
>     a modular way. There are equivalent generic methods also for the other
>     platforms.
> 
>     Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org>
>     Reviewed-by: Patrick Steuer <patrick.steuer at de.ibm.com>
>     (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9231)
> 
> result:
> $ sh ../run.sh
> run test dhgex.sh ...
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 3des-cbc
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 3des-cbc
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 aes128-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 aes128-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 aes256-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 aes256-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 rijndael-cbc at lysator.liu.se
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 rijndael-cbc at lysator.liu.se
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
> chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com
> failed dhgex
> 
> Commit #2: The Red Herring. This broke building without engine.
> commit 2f17cc493cfaa5c77a77d4f174dd2403188c41da
> Author: Pauli <paul.dale at oracle.com>
> Date:   Thu Sep 5 13:53:20 2019 +1000
> 
>     Unify the digest getting code inside providers.
> 
>     Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org>
>     (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9770)
> 
> Commit #3:  This commit broke the non-GCM ciphers.
> 
> commit 089cb623be76b88a1eea6fcd135101037661bbc3
> Author: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis at oracle.com>
> Date:   Tue Oct 8 09:19:10 2019 +1000
> 
>     Move cipher ctx 'original iv' parameter into the provider
> 
>     Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org>
>     (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10026)
> 
> run test dhgex.sh ...
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 3des-cbc
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 3des-cbc
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 aes128-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 3072 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 aes128-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 aes256-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 aes256-gcm at openssh.com
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 rijndael-cbc at lysator.liu.se
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 rijndael-cbc at lysator.liu.se
> ssh failed ()
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com
> dhgex bits 8192 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
> chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com
> failed dhgex
> 
> Environment setup on OpenBSD:
> git clone https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable.git openssh
> git clone https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git openssl
> (cd openssh && AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.69 autoreconf)
> cat >run.sh <<EOD
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> 
> rm -rf ~/tmp/openssl-install
> LDLIBS=-lc ./config no-threads no-fips no-engine --prefix=~/tmp/openssl-install
> make clean
> make
> make install_sw
> 
> (cd ../openssh &&
> ./configure --with-ssl-dir=~/tmp/openssl-install --with-rpath=-Wl,-rpath, &&
> make clean &&
> make -j4 &&
> make t-exec LTESTS="dhgex")
> EOD
> 
> -- 
> Darren Tucker (dtucker at dtucker.net)
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>     Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience
> usually comes from bad judgement.
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Well even simple tests are broken.  Hopefully this can be
copied to
openssl-dev at openssl.org .

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