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wolfSSL Release 5.3.0 (May 3, 2022)
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Release 5.3.0 of wolfSSL embedded TLS has bug fixes and new features including:

New Feature Additions

Ports

  • Updated support for Stunnel to version 5.61
  • Add i.MX8 NXP SECO use for secure private ECC keys and expand cryptodev-linux for use with the RSA/Curve25519 with the Linux CAAM driver
  • Allow encrypt then mac with Apache port
  • Update Renesas TSIP version to 1.15 on GR-ROSE and certificate signature data for TSIP / SCE example
  • Add IAR MSP430 example, located in IDE/IAR-MSP430 directory
  • Add support for FFMPEG with the enable option --enable-ffmpeg, FFMPEG is used for recording and converting video and audio (https://ffmpeg.org/)
  • Update the bind port to version 9.18.0

Post Quantum

  • Add Post-quantum KEM benchmark for STM32
  • Enable support for using post quantum algorithms with embedded STM32 boards and port to STM32U585

Compatibility Layer Additions

  • Add port to support libspdm (https://github.com/DMTF/libspdm/blob/main/README.md), compatibility functions added for the port were:
    • ASN1_TIME_compare
    • DH_new_by_nid
    • OBJ_length, OBJ_get0_data,
    • EVP layer ChaCha20-Poly1305, HKDF
    • EC_POINT_get_affine_coordinates
    • EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates
  • Additional functions added were:
    • EC_KEY_print_fp
    • EVP_PKEY_paramgen
    • EVP_PKEY_sign/verify functionality
    • PEM_write_RSAPublicKey
    • PEM_write_EC_PUBKEY
    • PKCS7_sign
    • PKCS7_final
    • SMIME_write_PKCS7
    • EC_KEY/DH_up_ref
    • EVP_DecodeBlock
    • EVP_EncodeBlock
    • EC_KEY_get_conv_form
    • BIO_eof
    • Add support for BIO_CTRL_SET and BIO_CTRL_GET
  • Add compile time support for the type SSL_R_NULL_SSL_METHOD_PASSED
  • Enhanced X509_NAME_print_ex() to support RFC5523 basic escape
  • More checks on OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER for API prototype differences
  • Add extended key usage support to wolfSSL_X509_set_ext
  • SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT now can also connect with compatibility layer enabled and a TLS 1.3 PSK connection is used
  • Improve wolfSSL_BN_rand to handle non byte boundaries and top/bottom parameters
  • Changed X509_V_ERR codes to better match OpenSSL values used
  • Improve wolfSSL_i2d_X509_name to allow for a NULL input in order to get the expected resulting size
  • Enhance the smallstack build to reduce stack size farther when built with compatibility layer enabled

Misc.

  • Sniffer asynchronous support addition, handling of DH shared secret and tested with Intel QuickAssist
  • Added in support for OCSP with IPv6
  • Enhance SP (single precision) optimizations for use with the ECC P521
  • Add new public API wc_CheckCertSigPubKey() for use to easily check the signature of a certificate given a public key buffer
  • Add CSR (Certificate Signing Request) userId support in subject name
  • Injection and parsing of custom extensions in X.509 certificates
  • Add WOLF_CRYPTO_CB_ONLY_RSA and WOLF_CRYPTO_CB_ONLY_ECC to reduce code size if using only crypto callback functions with RSA and ECC
  • Created new --enable-engine configure flag used to build wolfSSL for use with wolfEngine
  • With TLS 1.3 PSK, when WOLFSSL_PSK_MULTI_ID_PER_CS is defined multiple IDs for a cipher suite can be handled
  • Added private key id/label support with improving the PK (Public Key) callbacks
  • Support for Intel QuickAssist ECC KeyGen acceleration
  • Add the function wolfSSL_CTX_SetCertCbCtx to set user context for certificate call back
  • Add the functions wolfSSL_CTX_SetEccSignCtx(WOLFSSL_CTX* ctx, void userCtx) and wolfSSL_CTX_GetEccSignCtx(WOLFSSL_CTX ctx) for setting and getting a user context
  • wolfRand for AMD --enable-amdrand

Fixes

PORT Fixes

  • KCAPI memory optimizations and page alignment fixes for ECC, AES mode fixes and reduction to memory usage
  • Add the new kdf.c file to the TI-RTOS build
  • Fix wait-until-done in RSA hardware primitive acceleration of ESP-IDF port
  • IOTSafe workarounds when reading files with ending 0’s and for ECC signatures

Math Library Fixes

  • Sanity check with SP math that ECC points ordinates are not greater than modulus length
  • Additional sanity checks that _sp_add_d does not error due to overflow
  • Wycheproof fixes, testing integration, and fixes for AVX / AArch64 ASM edge case tests
  • TFM fp_div_2_ct rework to avoid potential overflow

Misc.

  • Fix for PKCS#7 with Crypto Callbacks
  • Fix for larger curve sizes with deterministic ECC sign
  • Fixes for building wolfSSL alongside openssl using --enable-opensslcoexist
  • Fix for compatibility layer handling of certificates with SHA256 SKID (Subject Key ID)
  • Fix for wolfSSL_ASN1_TIME_diff erroring out on a return value of 0 from mktime
  • Remove extra padding when AES-CBC encrypted with PemToDer
  • Fixes for TLS v1.3 early data with async.
  • Fixes for async disables around the DevCopy calls
  • Fixes for Windows AES-NI with clang compiler
  • Fix for handling the detection of processing a plaintext TLS alert packet
  • Fix for potential memory leak in an error case with TLSX supported groups
  • Sanity check on input size in DecodeNsCertType
  • AES-GCM stack alignment fixes with assembly code written for AVX/AVX2
  • Fix for PK callbacks with server side and setting a public key

Improvements/Optimizations

Build Options and Warnings

  • Added example user settings template for FIPS v5 ready
  • Automake file touch cleanup for use with Yocto devtool
  • Allow disabling forced 'make clean' at the end of ./configure by using --disable-makeclean
  • Enable TLS 1.3 early data when specifying --enable-all option
  • Disable PK Callbacks with JNI FIPS builds
  • Add a FIPS cert 3389 ready option, this is the fips-ready build
  • Support (no)inline with Wind River Diab compiler
  • ECDH_compute_key allow setting of globalRNG with FIPS 140-3
  • Add logic equivalent to configure.ac in settings.h for Poly1305
  • Fixes to support building opensslextra with SP math
  • CPP protection for extern references to x86_64 asm code
  • Updates and enhancements for Espressif ESP-IDF wolfSSL setup_win.bat
  • Documentation improvements with auto generation
  • Fix reproducible-build for working an updated version of libtool, version 2.4.7
  • Fixes for Diab C89 and armclang
  • Fix mcapi_test.c to include the settings.h before crypto.h
  • Update and handle builds with NO_WOLFSSL_SERVER and NO_WOLFSSL_CLIENT
  • Fix for some macro defines with FIPS 140-3 build so that RSA_PKCS1_PSS_PADDING can be used with RSA sign/verify functions

Math Libraries

  • Add RSA/DH check for even modulus
  • Enhance TFM math to handle more alloc failure cases gracefully
  • SP ASM performance improvements mostly around AArch64
  • SP ASM improvements for additional cache attack resistance
  • Add RSA check for small difference between p and q
  • 6-8% performance increase with ECC operations using SP int by improving the Montgomery Reduction

Testing and Validation

  • All shell scripts in source tree now tested for correctness using shellcheck and bash -n
  • Added build testing under gcc-12 and -std=c++17 and fixed warnings
  • TLS 1.3 script test improvement to wait for server to write file
  • Unit tests for ECC r/s zeroness handling
  • CI server was expanded with a very “quiet” machine that can support multiple ContantTime tests ensuring ongoing mitigation against side-channel timing based attacks. Algorithms being assessed on this machine are: AES-CBC, AES-GCM, CHACHA20, ECC, POLY1305, RSA, SHA256, SHA512, CURVE25519.
  • Added new multi configuration windows builds to CI testing for greater testing coverage of windows use-cases

Misc.

  • Support for ECC import to check validity of key on import even if one of the coordinates (x or y) is 0
  • Modify example app to work with FreeRTOS+IoT
  • Ease of access for cert used for verifying a PKCS#7 bundle
  • Clean up Visual Studio output and intermediate directories
  • With TLS 1.3 fail immediately if a server sends empty certificate message
  • Enhance the benchmark application to support multi-threaded testing
  • Improvement for wc_EccPublicKeyToDer to not overestimate the buffer size required
  • Fix to check if wc_EccPublicKeyToDer has enough output buffer space
  • Fix year 2038 problem in wolfSSL_ASN1_TIME_diff
  • Various portability improvements (Time, DTLS epoch size, IV alloc)
  • Prefer status_request_v2 over status_request when both are present
  • Add separate "struct stat" definition XSTATSTRUCT to make overriding XSTAT easier for portability
  • With SipHash replace gcc specific ASM instruction with generic
  • Don't force a ECC CA when a custom CA is passed with -A
  • Add peer authentication failsafe for TLS 1.2 and below
  • Improve parsing of UID from subject and issuer name with the compatibility layer by
  • Fallback to full TLS handshake if session ticket fails
  • Internal refactoring of code to reduce ssl.c file size
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