OpenSSL-ibmca

OpenSSL engine and provider that uses the libica library under s390x to accelerate cryptographic operations.

Requirements

The build requirements are:

• openssl-devel >= 0.9.8
• openssl-devel >= 3.0.0 for building the IBMCA provider
• libica-devel >= 3.3.0
• libica-devel >= 3.6.0 or >= 4.0.1 for building the IBMCA provider
• autoconf
• automake
• libtool
• openssl
• perl

The runtime requirements are:

• openssl >= 0.9.8
• openssl-devel >= 3.0.0 for using the IBMCA provider
• libica >= 3.3.0
• libica >= 3.6.0 or >= 4.0.1 for using the IBMCA provider

Installing

$ ./configure [--enable-debug] [--disable-engine] [--disable-provider]
$ make
$ sudo make install

This will configure, build and install the package in a default location, which is /usr/local/lib. It means that the engine ibmca.so and the provider ibmca-provider.so will be installed in /usr/local/lib/ by default. If you want to install it anywhere else, run "configure" passing the new location via prefix argument, for example:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-provider --libdir=/usr/lib64/openssl/engines

or

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-engine --libdir=/usr/lib64/ossl-modules

Additionally, at configure time, you can specify to build the engine against the libica-cex version via the --with-libica-cex feature switch. If this switch is not specified, the engine will use the full version of libica by default.

To specify the version of libica for the engine, use --with-libica-version=<version>. The default version is version 4 of libica. To build the engine against version 3 of libica, specify --with-libica-version=3 at configure time.

The provider uses the libica-cex version of libica by default. To build the provider against the full version of libica specify the --with-provider-libica-full feature switch. There is no functional difference when the provider is built against the full version of libica. The provider requires libica version 4, it can not be built with an older libica version.

The provider requires OpenSSL 3.0 or later to be built. If OpenSSL 3.0 is not availale, then the provider is automatically disabled. When OpenSSL 3.0 is available, by default both, the engine as well as the provider are built. You can disable the engine or the provider with the ----disable-engine or ----disable-provider switch.

There are 2 RPM spec files contained in this package: openssl-ibmca.spec and openssl-ibmca-provider.spec. The first one builds only the engine and installs it into OpenSSL's engine directory. The second one builds only the provider and install it into OpenSSL's modules directory.

We leave it to the distributions to produce an RPM that contains both, engine and provider, if wanted. You can only specify one installation directory with the --libdir configure option, but providers and engines need to be installed into different locations. To achieve this, the engine and provider shared objects must be moved by subsequent commands to the correct location after make install has been performed.

Enabling IBMCA

Apps with compiled-in OpenSSL config support can enable the engine or provider via an OpenSSL configuration file. Refer to config(5). Sample OpenSSL configuration files (openssl.cnf.sample and openssl.cnf.provider.sample) are included in this package.

If the engine is configured properly, the command below should return the IBMCA engine and all the supported cryptographic methods.

$ openssl engine -c
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support
(ibmca) Ibmca hardware engine support
[RAND, DES-ECB, DES-CBC, DES-OFB, DES-CFB, DES-EDE3, DES-EDE3-CBC, DES-EDE3-OFB,
 DES-EDE3-CFB, AES-128-ECB, AES-192-ECB, AES-256-ECB, AES-128-CBC, AES-192-CBC,
 AES-256-CBC, AES-128-OFB, AES-192-OFB, AES-256-OFB, AES-128-CFB, AES-192-CFB,
 AES-256-CFB, id-aes128-GCM, id-aes192-GCM, id-aes256-GCM, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512]
$

If the provider is configured properly, the command below should return the IBMCA provider.

$ openssl list -providers
Providers:
  default
    name: OpenSSL Default Provider
    version: 3.1.0
    status: active
  ibmca
    name: ibmca
    version: 1.1.0
    status: active
$

You can list the cryptographic methods implemented by the activated providers as follows:

$ openssl list -key-managers
...
  Name: IBMCA RSA implementation
    Type: Provider Algorithm
    IDs: { 1.2.840.113549.1.1.1, 2.5.8.1.1, RSA, rsaEncryption } @ ibmca
  Name: IBMCA DH implementation
    Type: Provider Algorithm
    IDs: { 1.2.840.113549.1.3.1, DH, dhKeyAgreement } @ ibmca
  Name: IBMCA EC implementation
    Type: Provider Algorithm
    IDs: { 1.2.840.10045.2.1, EC, id-ecPublicKey } @ ibmca
  Name: IBMCA RSA-PSS implementation
    Type: Provider Algorithm
    IDs: { 1.2.840.113549.1.1.10, RSA-PSS, RSASSA-PSS, rsassaPss } @ ibmca
  Name: IBMCA DHX implementation
    Type: Provider Algorithm
    IDs: { 1.2.840.10046.2.1, dhpublicnumber, DHX, X9.42 DH } @ ibmca
...
$ openssl list -signature-algorithms
...
  { 1.2.840.113549.1.1.1, 2.5.8.1.1, RSA, rsaEncryption } @ ibmca
  ECDSA @ ibmca
...
$ openssl list -asymcipher-algorithms
...
  { 1.2.840.113549.1.1.1, 2.5.8.1.1, RSA, rsaEncryption } @ ibmca
...
$ openssl list -key-exchange-algorithms
...
  { 1.2.840.113549.1.3.1, DH, dhKeyAgreement } @ ibmca
  ECDH @ ibmca
....
$

Configuring OpenSSL-ibmca

Since libica 3.8.0, libica provides two libraries. The basic libica.so.3 contains all the features listed above and is the default library unless the configure switch --with-libica-cex is provided. In that case, libica-cex.so.4 becomes the default library. If both versions of the library are installed on a system, OpenSSL-ibmca can be configured to use either of these two. To use libica.so.4, with OpenSSL-ibmca, simply add the directive libica = libica.so.4 to your OpenSSL configuration file in the engine section before init = 1. Similarly, to use libica-cex.so.4, add the line libica = libica-cex.so.4.

The build process of OpenSSL-ibmca will produce the scripts ibmca-engine-opensslconfig and ibmca-provider-opensslconfig which can be used to update an existing OpenSSL configuration to enable the OpenSSL-ibmca engine or provider. By default, these scripts are not installed. We leave it to the distributions to find the correct place for these scripts (or not use them at all).

Support

To report a bug please submit a ticket including the following information in the issue description:

• bug description
• distro release
• openssl-ibmca package version
• libica package version
• OpenSSL package version
• steps to reproduce the bug

Regarding technical or usage questions, also submit a ticket.

Limitations

The ibmca engine's cipher and digest implementations do not support the processing of messages in arbitrary chunk sizes. All chunks, except the final one, are required to be a multiple of the primitive's block size.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.