Bug 2188180 - Enable support for brainpool curves in ECC in RHEL
Summary: Enable support for brainpool curves in ECC in RHEL
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Status: VERIFIED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openssl
Version: 9.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Sahana Prasad
QA Contact: Hubert Kario
Mirek Jahoda
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-04-20 02:29 UTC by Sahana Prasad
Modified: 2023-07-12 11:35 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: openssl-3.0.7-21.el9
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Feature: Enable support for brainpool curves in ECC Reason: There were requests from customers to enable brainpool curves in RHEL. This update therefore enables long brainpool curves by default in ECC in RHEL 9.3 Result: The following brainpool curves are enabled and available for use in RHEL 9.3 brainpoolP256r1 brainpoolP256t1 brainpoolP320r1 brainpoolP320t1 brainpoolP384r1 brainpoolP384t1 brainpoolP512r1 brainpoolP512t1
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Issue Tracker CRYPTO-10369 0 None None None 2023-04-20 03:18:35 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-155254 0 None None None 2023-04-20 02:31:26 UTC

Description Sahana Prasad 2023-04-20 02:29:44 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently brainpool curves in ECC are disabled.

After discussing with RH-legal, we are now permitted to allow Brainpool curves.
There is a request to enable Brainpool curves by customers like Samsung (attached customer case).

Changes as part of this bug, will therefore enable long brainpool curves in ECC by default. Short curves are still disabled as they are unsafe to be used.

Actual results:
Brainpool curves are disabled.

Expected results:
Brainpool curves (long) are enabled in ECC by default.

Additional info:
Fedora bug for the same issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2141672

RH-legal
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/752Z34MTHB6B4XRUW2TTAPEIUUK4O2LA/

Customer case requesting Brainpool support in RHEL:
https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/03462042

Comment 1 Clemens Lang 2023-04-25 16:03:14 UTC
Setting a doc type, but we still need to fill the doc text.

Comment 6 Sahana Prasad 2023-06-26 08:27:24 UTC
Dev testing logs on 1minute-tip machine:
[root@vm-10-0-185-157 ~]# 
[root@vm-10-0-185-157 ~]# openssl ecparam -list_curves
  secp224r1 : NIST/SECG curve over a 224 bit prime field
  secp384r1 : NIST/SECG curve over a 384 bit prime field
  secp521r1 : NIST/SECG curve over a 521 bit prime field
  prime256v1: X9.62/SECG curve over a 256 bit prime field
[root@vm-10-0-185-157 ~]# uname -a
Linux vm-10-0-185-157.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com 5.14.0-329.el9.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Jun 17 15:36:40 EDT 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@vm-10-0-185-157 ~]# cat /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled
1


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