| GOST ENGINE |
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| This engine provides implementation of Russian cryptography standard. |
| This is also an example of adding new cryptoalgorithms into OpenSSL |
| without changing its core. If OpenSSL is compiled with dynamic engine |
| support, new algorithms can be added even without recompilation of |
| OpenSSL and applications which use it. |
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| ALGORITHMS SUPPORTED |
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| GOST R 34.10-94 and GOST R 34.10-2001 - digital signature algorithms. |
| Also support key exchange based on public keys. See RFC 4357 for |
| details of VKO key exchange algorithm. These algorithms use |
| 256 bit private keys. Public keys are 1024 bit for 94 and 512 bit for |
| 2001 (which is elliptic-curve based). Key exchange algorithms |
| (VKO R 34.10) are supported on these keys too. |
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| GOST R 34.11-94 Message digest algorithm. 256-bit hash value |
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| GOST 28147-89 - Symmetric cipher with 256-bit key. Various modes are |
| defined in the standard, but only CFB and CNT modes are implemented |
| in the engine. To make statistical analysis more difficult, key |
| meshing is supported (see RFC 4357). |
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| GOST 28147-89 MAC mode. Message authentication code. While most MAC |
| algorithms out there are based on hash functions using HMAC |
| algorithm, this algoritm is based on symmetric cipher. |
| It has 256-bit symmetric key and only 32 bits of MAC value |
| (while HMAC has same key size and value size). |
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| It is implemented as combination of EVP_PKEY type and EVP_MD type. |
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| USAGE OF THESE ALGORITHMS |
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| This engine is designed to allow usage of this algorithms in the |
| high-level openssl functions, such as PKI, S/MIME and TLS. |
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| See RFC 4490 for S/MIME with GOST algorithms and RFC 4491 for PKI. |
| TLS support is implemented according IETF |
| draft-chudov-cryptopro-cptls-03.txt and is compatible with |
| CryptoPro CSP 3.0 and 3.6 as well as with MagPro CSP. |
| GOST ciphersuites implemented in CryptoPro CSP 2.0 are not supported |
| because they use ciphersuite numbers used now by AES ciphersuites. |
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| To use the engine you have to load it via openssl configuration |
| file. Applications should read openssl configuration file or provide |
| their own means to load engines. Also, applications which operate with |
| private keys, should use generic EVP_PKEY API instead of using RSA or |
| other algorithm-specific API. |
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| CONFIGURATION FILE |
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| Configuration file should include following statement in the global |
| section, i.e. before first bracketed section header (see config(5) for details) |
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| openssl_conf = openssl_def |
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| where openssl_def is name of the section in configuration file which |
| describes global defaults. |
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| This section should contain following statement: |
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| [openssl_def] |
| engines = engine_section |
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| which points to the section which describes list of the engines to be |
| loaded. This section should contain: |
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| [engine_section] |
| gost = gost_section |
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| And section which describes configuration of the engine should contain |
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| [gost_section] |
| engine_id = gost |
| dynamic_path = /usr/lib/ssl/engines/libgost.so |
| default_algorithms = ALL |
| CRYPT_PARAMS = id-Gost28147-89-CryptoPro-A-ParamSet |
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| Where engine_id parameter specifies name of engine (should be "gost"). |
| dynamic_path is a location of the loadable shared library implementing the |
| engine. If the engine is compiled statically or is located in the OpenSSL |
| engines directory, this line can be omitted. |
| default_algorithms parameter specifies that all algorithms, provided by |
| engine, should be used. |
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| The CRYPT_PARAMS parameter is engine-specific. It allows the user to choose |
| between different parameter sets of symmetric cipher algorithm. RFC 4357 |
| specifies several parameters for the GOST 28147-89 algorithm, but OpenSSL |
| doesn't provide user interface to choose one when encrypting. So use engine |
| configuration parameter instead. |
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| Value of this parameter can be either short name, defined in OpenSSL |
| obj_dat.h header file or numeric representation of OID, defined in RFC |
| 4357. |
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| USAGE WITH COMMAND LINE openssl UTILITY |
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| 1. Generation of private key |
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| openssl genpkey -algorithm gost2001 -pkeyopt paramset:A -out seckey.pem |
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| Use -algorithm option to specify algorithm. |
| Use -pkeyopt option to pass paramset to algorithm. The following paramsets |
| are supported by |
| gost94: 0,A,B,C,D,XA,XB,XC |
| gost2001: 0,A,B,C,XA,XB |
| You can also use numeric representation of OID as to destinate |
| paramset. |
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| Paramsets starting with X are intended to use for key exchange keys. |
| Paramsets without X are for digital signature keys. |
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| Paramset for both algorithms 0 is the test paramset which should be used |
| only for test purposes. |
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| There are no algorithm-specific things with generation of certificate |
| request once you have a private key. |
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| 2. Generation of certificate request along with private/public keypar |
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| openssl req -newkey gost2001 -pkeyopt paramset:A |
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| Syntax of -pkeyopt parameter is identical with genpkey command. |
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| You can also use oldstyle syntax -newkey gost2001:paramfile, but in |
| this case you should create parameter file first. |
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| It can be created with |
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| openssl genpkey -genparam -algorithm gost2001 -pkeyopt paramset:A\ |
| -out paramfile. |
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| 3. S/MIME operations |
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| If you want to send encrypted mail using GOST algorithms, don't forget |
| to specify -gost89 as encryption algorithm for OpenSSL smime command. |
| While OpenSSL is clever enough to find out that GOST R 34.11-94 digest |
| must be used for digital signing with GOST private key, it have no way |
| to derive symmetric encryption algorithm from key exchange keys. |
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| 4. TLS operations |
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| OpenSSL supports all four ciphersuites defined in the IETF draft. |
| Once you've loaded GOST key and certificate into your TLS server, |
| ciphersuites which use GOST 28147-89 encryption are enabled. |
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| Ciphersuites with NULL encryption should be enabled explicitely if |
| needed. |
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| GOST2001-GOST89-GOST89 Uses GOST R 34.10-2001 for auth and key exchange |
| GOST 28147-89 for encryption and GOST 28147-89 MAC |
| GOST94-GOST89-GOST89 Uses GOST R 34.10-94 for auth and key exchange |
| GOST 28147-89 for encryption and GOST 28147-89 MAC |
| GOST2001-NULL-GOST94 Uses GOST R 34.10-2001 for auth and key exchange, |
| no encryption and HMAC, based on GOST R 34.11-94 |
| GOST94-NULL-GOST94 Uses GOST R 34.10-94 for auth and key exchange, |
| no encryption and HMAC, based on GOST R 34.11-94 |
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| Gost 94 and gost 2001 keys can be used simultaneously in the TLS server. |
| RSA, DSA and EC keys can be used simultaneously with GOST keys, if |
| server implementation supports loading more than two private |
| key/certificate pairs. In this case ciphersuites which use any of loaded |
| keys would be supported and clients can negotiate ones they wish. |
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| This allows creation of TLS servers which use GOST ciphersuites for |
| Russian clients and RSA/DSA ciphersuites for foreign clients. |
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| 5. Calculation of digests and symmetric encryption |
| OpenSSL provides specific commands (like sha1, aes etc) for calculation |
| of digests and symmetric encryption. Since such commands cannot be |
| added dynamically, no such commands are provided for GOST algorithms. |
| Use generic commands 'dgst' and 'enc'. |
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| Calculation of GOST R 34.11-94 message digest |
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| openssl dgst -md_gost94 datafile |
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| Note that GOST R 34.11-94 specifies that digest value should be |
| interpreted as little-endian number, but OpenSSL outputs just hex dump |
| of digest value. |
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| So, to obtain correct digest value, such as produced by gostsum utility |
| included in the engine distribution, bytes of output should be |
| reversed. |
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| Calculation of HMAC based on GOST R 34.11-94 |
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| openssl dgst -md_gost94 -mac hmac -macopt key:<32 bytes of key> datafile |
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| (or use hexkey if key contain NUL bytes) |
| Calculation of GOST 28147 MAC |
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| openssl dgst -mac gost-mac -macopt key:<32 bytes of key> datafile |
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| Note absense of an option that specifies digest algorithm. gost-mac |
| algorithm supports only one digest (which is actually part of |
| implementation of this mac) and OpenSSL is clever enough to find out |
| this. |
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| Encryption with GOST 28147 CFB mode |
| openssl enc -gost89 -out encrypted-file -in plain-text-file -k <passphrase> |
| Encryption with GOST 28147 CNT mode |
| openssl enc -gost89-cnt -out encrypted-file -in plain-text-file -k <passphrase> |
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| 6. Encrypting private keys and PKCS12 |
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| To produce PKCS12 files compatible with MagPro CSP, you need to use |
| GOST algorithm for encryption of PKCS12 file and also GOST R 34.11-94 |
| hash to derive key from password. |
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| openssl pksc12 -export -inkey gost.pem -in gost_cert.pem -keypbe gost89\ |
| -certpbe gost89 -macalg md_gost94 |
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| 7. Testing speed of symmetric ciphers. |
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| To test performance of GOST symmetric ciphers you should use -evp switch |
| of the openssl speed command. Engine-provided ciphers couldn't be |
| accessed by cipher-specific functions, only via generic evp interface |
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| openssl speed -evp gost89 |
| openssl speed -evp gost89-cnt |
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| PROGRAMMING INTERFACES DETAILS |
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| Applications never should access engine directly. They only use provided |
| EVP_PKEY API. But there are some details, which should be taken into |
| account. |
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| EVP provides two kinds of API for key exchange: |
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| 1. EVP_PKEY_encrypt/EVP_PKEY_decrypt functions, intended to use with |
| RSA-like public key encryption algorithms |
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| 2. EVP_PKEY_derive, intended to use with Diffie-Hellman-like shared key |
| computing algorithms. |
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| Although VKO R 34.10 algorithms, described in the RFC 4357 are |
| definitely second case, engine provides BOTH API for GOST R 34.10 keys. |
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| EVP_PKEY_derive just invokes appropriate VKO algorithm and computes |
| 256 bit shared key. VKO R 34.10-2001 requires 64 bits of random user key |
| material (UKM). This UKM should be transmitted to other party, so it is |
| not generated inside derive function. |
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| It should be set by EVP_PKEY_CTX_ctrl function using |
| EVP_PKEY_CTRL_SET_IV command after call of EVP_PKEY_derive_init, but |
| before EVP_PKEY_derive. |
| unsigned char ukm[8]; |
| RAND_bytes(ukm,8); |
| EVP_PKEY_CTX_ctrl(ctx, -1, EVP_PKEY_OP_DERIVE, 8, ukm) |
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| EVP_PKEY_encrypt encrypts provided session key with VKO shared key and |
| packs it into GOST key transport structure, described in the RFC 4490. |
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| It typically uses ephemeral key pair to compute shared key and packs its |
| public part along with encrypted key. So, for most cases use of |
| EVP_PKEY_encrypt/EVP_PKEY_decrypt with GOST keys is almost same as with |
| RSA. |
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| However, if peerkey field in the EVP_PKEY_CTX structure is set (using |
| EVP_PKEY_derive_set_peerkey function) to EVP_PKEY structure which has private |
| key and uses same parameters as the public key from which this EVP_PKEY_CTX is |
| created, EVP_PKEY_encrypt will use this private key to compute shared key and |
| set ephemeral key in the GOST_key_transport structure to NULL. In this case |
| pkey and peerkey fields in the EVP_PKEY_CTX are used upside-down. |
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| If EVP_PKEY_decrypt encounters GOST_key_transport structure with NULL |
| public key field, it tries to use peerkey field from the context to |
| compute shared key. In this case peerkey field should really contain |
| peer public key. |
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| Encrypt operation supports EVP_PKEY_CTRL_SET_IV operation as well. |
| It can be used when some specific restriction on UKM are imposed by |
| higher level protocol. For instance, description of GOST ciphersuites |
| requires UKM to be derived from shared secret. |
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| If UKM is not set by this control command, encrypt operation would |
| generate random UKM. |
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| This sources include implementation of GOST 28147-89 and GOST R 34.11-94 |
| which are completely indepentent from OpenSSL and can be used separately |
| (files gost89.c, gost89.h, gosthash.c, gosthash.h) Utility gostsum (file |
| gostsum.c) is provided as example of such separate usage. This is |
| program, simular to md5sum and sha1sum utilities, but calculates GOST R |
| 34.11-94 hash. |
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| Makefile doesn't include rule for compiling gostsum. |
| Use command |
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| $(CC) -o gostsum gostsum.c gost89.c gosthash.c |
| where $(CC) is name of your C compiler. |
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| Implementations of GOST R 34.10-xx, including VKO algorithms heavily |
| depends on OpenSSL BIGNUM and Elliptic Curve libraries. |
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