Re: adding a new custom ciphersuite to NSS (to be used by Thunderbird for TLS establishment)

f masood via dev-security <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 20:42:41 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello again, can anyone guide me ? Thanks. 
On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 11:53:49 PM UTC+5, f masood wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Hope everyone doing great. 
> 
> I have a small research oriented project in which I have to add a custom similar to AES like cipher to the NSS which will later be used by the Thunderbird for TLS establishment. 
> 
> Currently, I have added/defined my ciphers in the following files by doing my own limited research:
> 
> i. sslproto.h
> ii. sslenum.c
> iii. ssl3con.c
> iv. ssl3ecc.c
> 
> the ciphersuite name is === TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_MYAES_128_GCM_SHA256, HEX number given to it  === OXC02A
> 
> 
> however when I compile the following error comes in:
> ssl3con.c(184): error C2078 too many initalizers
> ssl3con.c(293): error C2065 cipher myaes_128_gcm : undeclared identifier
> 
> and alot more errors ...
> 
> What should be the best approach or steps to successfully integrate a custom CIPHERSUITE, should I look at the "
> Support for Camellia Cipher Suites to TLS RFC4132: Attachment #245822: patch for NSS trunk" and "SEED cipher" patches ?
> 
> I will be contributing to this open source society by providing a documentation/patch/video of what I have done which will benefit others.
> 
> Regards.