Re: ECC keygen for PR #528 ("Attestation driver and proxy")

Nicolai Stange <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.coconut-svsm
Message-ID <87msbylh7a.fsf@>
Hi Stefano,

Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 16:08, Nicolai Stange <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I managed to carve out and cleanup the first batch ([1]) from my work on
>> an encrypted FS by now. The FS cleanup itself is still WIP, but the
>> crypto parts should be in a usable state.
>>
>> As mentioned on last week's svsm-devel call, it might help with
>> addressing those stack size related issues with ECC keygen in the
>> context of PR #528 ([2]).
>>
>> I prepared some example code for generating an ECC key with NIST P-521,
>> to be found at [3].
>>
>> From some lax experiments in userspace, peak stack usage is at about 2.3kB.
>> (Which is still way above what I would have expected, given that no
>>  buffers are stored on the stack. I'm currently investigating that).
>>
>> I'm not sure whether merely generating the key is all you need -- FWIW
>> there's also support for ecdh, ecdsa and ecschnorr, in case you're
>> wondering. I'd be happy to come up with some example code for these as
>> well.
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any questions, either here or in today's
>> call.
>
> Cool, thanks for the example code, I guess this can unlock for now
> Tyler's PR and FS support, but as we discussed yesterday in the
> community call, the long term plan is to use OpenSSL/BoringSSL. I'll
> open an issue ASAP to track that work, and I'll start to investigate
> it.

I've implemented a BoringSSL FFI backend as a configurable alternative
to the cocoon-tpm-crypto now (example code is updated accodingly), and
did a POC integration into SVSM, c.f. [4]. Good news is it still boots :)

Thanks,

Nicolai

[4] https://github.com/nicstange/svsm/tree/cocoon-tpm-crypto-integration-poc

>>
>> [1] https://github.com/nicstange/cocoon-tpm
>> [2] https://github.com/coconut-svsm/svsm/pull/528
>> [3] https://github.com/nicstange/cocoon-tpm-crypto-ec-key-gen-demo
>>

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