Skip to content

Use OpenSSL "legacy" provider in "Check Certificates" for compatibility w/ RC2-40-CBC encrypted PKS#12 #294

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Dec 7, 2022
Merged

Use OpenSSL "legacy" provider in "Check Certificates" for compatibility w/ RC2-40-CBC encrypted PKS#12 #294

merged 1 commit into from
Dec 7, 2022

Conversation

per1234
Copy link
Contributor

@per1234 per1234 commented Dec 7, 2022

The "Check Certificates" GitHub Actions workflow uses OpenSSL to check for problems with the project's signing certificates.

Certificates exported to PKS #12 archive files using older tools may have been encrypted using the "RC2-40-CBC" algorithm.

Due to the availability of more secure modern alternatives, default support for RC2-40-CBC encryption was dropped in OpenSSL 3.x.

The macOS signing certificate currently used by Arduino uses this "RC2-40-CBC" encryption so it will be best to configure the workflow to still support this algorithm.

The "Check Certificates" GitHub Actions workflow runs on the ubuntu-latest runner. Previously, this runner used Ubuntu 20.04. This has now changed to Ubuntu 22.04. With the operating system update came an OpenSSL update from 1.1.1f to 3.0.2. This caused the workflow runs to fail on the macOS certificate job:

https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/actions/runs/3634539791/jobs/6132720176#step:5:16

Error outputting keys and certificates
80FBB0C5087F0000:error:0308010C:digital envelope routines:inner_evp_generic_fetch:unsupported:../crypto/evp/evp_fetch.c:349:Global default library context, Algorithm (RC2-40-CBC : 0), Properties ()

Even though no longer done by default, OpenSSL still supports RC2-40-CBC encryption via its "legacy" provider. So compatibility with the certificate is restored by adding the -legacy flag to the openssl pkcs12 commands.

…ty w/ RC2-40-CBC encrypted PKS#12

The "Check Certificates" GitHub Actions workflow template uses OpenSSL to check for problems with the project's signing
certificates.

Certificates exported to PKS #12 archive files using older tools may have been encrypted using the "RC2-40-CBC"
algorithm.

Due to the availability of more secure modern alternatives, default support for RC2-40-CBC encryption was dropped in
OpenSSL 3.x.

The macOS signing certificate currently used by Arduino uses this RC2-40-CBC encryption.

The "Check Certificates" GitHub Actions workflow runs on the `ubuntu-latest` runner. Previously, this runner used Ubuntu
20.04. This has now changed to Ubuntu 22.04. With the operating system update came an OpenSSL update from 1.1.1f to
3.0.2. This caused the workflow runs to fail on the macOS certificate job:

Error outputting keys and certificates
80FBB0C5087F0000:error:0308010C:digital envelope routines:inner_evp_generic_fetch:unsupported:../crypto/evp/evp_fetch.c:349:Global default library context, Algorithm (RC2-40-CBC : 0), Properties ()

Even though no longer done by default, OpenSSL still supports RC2-40-CBC encryption via its "legacy" provider. So
compatibility with the certificate is restored by adding the `-legacy` flag to the `openssl pkcs12` commands.
@per1234 per1234 added type: imperfection Perceived defect in any part of project topic: code Related to content of the project itself labels Dec 7, 2022
@per1234 per1234 self-assigned this Dec 7, 2022
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
topic: code Related to content of the project itself type: imperfection Perceived defect in any part of project
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants