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| author | Juan Castillo <juan.castillo@arm.com> | 2015-02-16 10:34:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Juan Castillo <juan.castillo@arm.com> | 2015-03-05 16:40:07 +0000 |
| commit | ea4ec3aad5e15225e8fbdd638872bdceeb96a8dc (patch) | |
| tree | f99bbc98bea51ba67c32bd92363f655d5a099c26 /docs/trusted-board-boot.md | |
| parent | 5930eadbe5d8d4c3f15fd910476f72cd5bf86f44 (diff) | |
TBB: use SHA256 to generate the certificate signatures
This patch replaces SHA1 by SHA256 in the 'cert_create' tool, so
certificate signatures are generated according to the NSA Suite B
cryptographic algorithm requirements.
Documentation updated accordingly.
Change-Id: I7be79e6b2b62dac8dc78a4f4f5006e37686bccf6
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/trusted-board-boot.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/trusted-board-boot.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/trusted-board-boot.md b/docs/trusted-board-boot.md index abba0309..f3b9f14e 100644 --- a/docs/trusted-board-boot.md +++ b/docs/trusted-board-boot.md @@ -44,10 +44,9 @@ essential information to establish the CoT. In the TBB CoT all certificates are self-signed. There is no need for a Certificate Authority (CA) because the CoT is not established by verifying the validity of a certificate's issuer but by the content of the certificate -extensions. To sign the certificates, the PKCS#1 SHA-1 with RSA Encryption +extensions. To sign the certificates, the PKCS#1 SHA-256 with RSA Encryption signature scheme is used with a RSA key length of 2048 bits. Future version of -Trusted Firmware will replace SHA-1 usage with SHA-256 and support additional -cryptographic algorithms. +Trusted Firmware will support additional cryptographic algorithms. The certificates are categorised as "Key" and "Content" certificates. Key certificates are used to verify public keys which have been used to sign content @@ -218,7 +217,7 @@ corresponding certificates or images at each step in the Trusted Board Boot sequence. The module relies on the PolarSSL library (v1.3.9) to perform the following operations: -* Parsing X.509 certificates and verifying them using SHA-1 with RSA +* Parsing X.509 certificates and verifying them using SHA-256 with RSA Encryption. * Extracting public keys and hashes from the certificates. * Generating hashes (SHA-256) of boot loader images |