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authorDr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>2020-09-04 15:24:14 +0200
committerDr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>2020-09-05 18:11:12 +0200
commit15076c26d794dbbdc5413a72e7feded0c9a2ba07 (patch)
tree19ed48870fcc21002b9053e3e9d3f8ca5d584be7 /doc/internal/man3
parent39082af2fa6549c3d92c917ea5a423bca57c7b42 (diff)
Strengthen chain building for CMP
* Add -own_trusted option to CMP app * Add OSSL_CMP_CTX_build_cert_chain() * Add optional trust store arg to ossl_cmp_build_cert_chain() * Extend the tests in cmp_protect_test.c and the documentation accordingly Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12791)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/internal/man3')
-rw-r--r--doc/internal/man3/ossl_cmp_msg_protect.pod30
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/internal/man3/ossl_cmp_msg_protect.pod b/doc/internal/man3/ossl_cmp_msg_protect.pod
index 6c33db6954..39f5146530 100644
--- a/doc/internal/man3/ossl_cmp_msg_protect.pod
+++ b/doc/internal/man3/ossl_cmp_msg_protect.pod
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ ossl_cmp_msg_add_extraCerts
STACK_OF(X509)
*ossl_cmp_build_cert_chain(OPENSSL_CTX *libctx, const char *propq,
+ X509_STORE *store,
STACK_OF(X509) *certs, X509 *cert);
ASN1_BIT_STRING *ossl_cmp_calc_protection(const OSSL_CMP_CTX *ctx,
const OSSL_CMP_MSG *msg);
@@ -22,19 +23,15 @@ ossl_cmp_msg_add_extraCerts
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-ossl_cmp_build_cert_chain() builds up the chain of intermediate CA certificates
-starting from the given certificate I<cert> as high up as possible using
-the given list of candidate certificates, similarly to ssl_add_cert_chain().
+ossl_cmp_build_cert_chain() builds a certificate chain starting from I<cert>
+using the optional list of intermediate CA certificates I<certs>.
+If I<store> is NULL builds the chain as far down as possible, ignoring errors.
+Else the chain must reach a trust anchor contained in I<store>.
It internally uses a B<X509_STORE_CTX> structure associated with the library
context I<libctx> and property query string I<propq>, both of which may be NULL.
-Intended use of this function is to find all the certificates above the trust
-anchor needed to verify an EE's own certificate.
-Those are supposed to be included in the ExtraCerts field of every first
-CMP message of a transaction when MSG_SIG_ALG is utilized.
-This allocates a stack and increments the reference count of each cert,
-so when not needed any more the stack and all its elements should be freed.
+If a non-NULL stack is returned the caller is responsible for freeing it.
In case there is more than one possibility for the chain,
-OpenSSL seems to take the first one; check X509_verify_cert() for details.
+OpenSSL seems to take the first one; check L<X509_verify_cert(3)> for details.
ossl_cmp_calc_protection() calculates the protection for the given I<msg>
according to the algorithm and parameters in the message header's protectionAlg
@@ -46,10 +43,10 @@ If there is a secretValue it selects PBMAC, else if there is a protection cert
it selects Signature and uses L<ossl_cmp_msg_add_extraCerts(3)>.
It also sets the protectionAlg field in the message header accordingly.
-ossl_cmp_msg_add_extraCerts() adds elements to the extraCerts field in the given
-message I<msg>. It tries to build the certificate chain of the client cert in
-the I<ctx> if present by using certificates in ctx->untrusted_certs;
-if no untrusted certs are set, it will at least add the client certificate.
+ossl_cmp_msg_add_extraCerts() adds elements to the extraCerts field in I<msg>.
+If signature-based message protection is used it adds first the CMP signer cert
+ctx->cert and then its chain ctx->chain. If this chain is not present in I<ctx>
+tries to build it using ctx->untrusted_certs and caches the result in ctx->chain.
In any case all the certificates explicitly specified to be sent out (i.e.,
I<ctx->extraCertsOut>) are added. Note that it will NOT add the root certificate
of the chain, i.e, the trust anchor (unless it is part of extraCertsOut).
@@ -62,9 +59,8 @@ CMP is defined in RFC 4210 (and CRMF in RFC 4211).
ossl_cmp_build_cert_chain() returns NULL on error,
else a pointer to a stack of (up_ref'ed) certificates
-containing the EE certificate given in the function arguments (cert)
-and all intermediate certificates up the chain toward the trust anchor.
-The (self-signed) trust anchor is not included.
+starting with given EE certificate and followed by all available intermediate
+certificates down towards (but excluding) any trusted root certificate.
ossl_cmp_calc_protection() returns the protection on success, else NULL.