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[Openvpn-devel,v3] Allow 'none' cipher being specified in --data-ciphers

Message ID 20201008115959.21151-1-arne@rfc2549.org
State Accepted
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Series [Openvpn-devel,v3] Allow 'none' cipher being specified in --data-ciphers |

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Arne Schwabe Oct. 8, 2020, 12:59 a.m. UTC 
  Although we want to get rid of none as cipher, we still have not
deprecated it. In order to use it currently you need
--ncp-disable together with --cipher none to use the none cipher
otherwise OpenVPN will spit out an error about an unrecognised
cipher in --data-ciphers.

In our current situation allowing none to be specified in data-ciphers
is the lesser evil.

This commit also fixes that we use '[null-cipher]' instead 'none' when
setting remote_cipher.

Note that negotiating to cipher 'none' can the same the same problems
with frame size calculation as any other non AEAD cipher. If
--cipher none is also specified in the configuration, the workaround
of commit e539c95dc will also apply to cipher none.

Patch V2: Also work correctly if remote_cipher is NULL.
Patch V3: fix unit tests, add note about corner case

Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
---
 src/openvpn/ssl.c                   |  8 ++++++++
 src/openvpn/ssl_ncp.c               | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 tests/unit_tests/openvpn/test_ncp.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Gert Doering Oct. 8, 2020, 4:02 a.m. UTC | #1 
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>

I have added two new cases to my server test suite: client with 
"--data-ciphers none" and "--ncp-disable --cipher none", against 
a server instance that permits "none" as part of its data-ciphers.

The first case failed on the client side ("unrecognized
cipher: none"), the second case was refused by the server side 
("No common cipher... client supports cipher '[null-cipher]').

Of course the server side *also* needs the patch to accept
"none" as part of --data-ciphers :-)

Then, this works:

2020-10-04 15:04:28 us=208824 2001:608:4:0:669a:56c1:4175:2c5b peer info: IV_CIPHERS=none
2020-10-04 15:04:28 us=251968 Data Channel: using negotiated cipher 'none'
2020-10-04 15:04:28 us=252006 ******* WARNING *******: '--cipher none' was ...

The warning in the logs is very clear and explicit - and I think
this is good.  This is a very special-use setting, and should
only be used with sufficient information and consideration.


Big IPv4 packets (t_client test with 3000 bytes) do not work - something
is wrong in our mtu/overhead calcululation.  But this is not something 
new (as the v3 commit message rightly points out) - if I do "client 
connects with --data-cipher DES-EDE3-CBC" (non AEAD) I get the same 

  TCP/UDP packet too large on write to ... (tried=1544,max=1542)

error as I have with "none" (there, it is tried=1529,max=1526).  Strange 
enough this only happens for IPv4 packets.


Your patch has been applied to the master and release/2.5 branch.

commit c018fc00be25aee5921d234531f87753a3a7aec7 (master)
commit f308251acdc539acb370aeccf46b0ec5587129c1 (release/2.5)
Author: Arne Schwabe
Date:   Thu Oct 8 13:59:59 2020 +0200

     Allow 'none' cipher being specified in --data-ciphers

     Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
     Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
     Message-Id: <20201008115959.21151-1-arne@rfc2549.org>
     URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg21181.html
     Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>


--
kind regards,

Gert Doering
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Patch

diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl.c b/src/openvpn/ssl.c
index 3535fc72..f90c6a85 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/ssl.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/ssl.c
@@ -2554,6 +2554,14 @@  key_method_2_read(struct buffer *buf, struct tls_multi *multi, struct tls_sessio
     multi->remote_ciphername =
         options_string_extract_option(options, "cipher", NULL);
 
+    /* In OCC we send '[null-cipher]' instead 'none' */
+    if (multi->remote_ciphername
+        && strcmp(multi->remote_ciphername, "[null-cipher]") == 0)
+    {
+        free(multi->remote_ciphername);
+        multi->remote_ciphername = string_alloc("none", NULL);
+    }
+
     if (tls_session_user_pass_enabled(session))
     {
         /* Perform username/password authentication */
diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl_ncp.c b/src/openvpn/ssl_ncp.c
index 55496395..c8229044 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/ssl_ncp.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/ssl_ncp.c
@@ -110,7 +110,15 @@  mutate_ncp_cipher_list(const char *list, struct gc_arena *gc)
          * e.g. replacing AeS-128-gCm with AES-128-GCM
          */
         const cipher_kt_t *ktc = cipher_kt_get(token);
-        if (!ktc)
+        if (strcmp(token, "none") == 0)
+        {
+            msg(M_WARN, "WARNING: cipher 'none' specified for --data-ciphers. "
+                        "This allows negotiation of NO encryption and "
+                        "tunnelled data WILL then be transmitted in clear text "
+                        "over the network! "
+                        "PLEASE DO RECONSIDER THIS SETTING!");
+        }
+        if (!ktc && strcmp(token, "none")!= 0)
         {
             msg(M_WARN, "Unsupported cipher in --data-ciphers: %s", token);
             error_found = true;
@@ -118,6 +126,12 @@  mutate_ncp_cipher_list(const char *list, struct gc_arena *gc)
         else
         {
             const char *ovpn_cipher_name = cipher_kt_name(ktc);
+            if (ktc == NULL)
+            {
+                /* NULL resolves to [null-cipher] but we need none for
+                 * data-ciphers */
+                ovpn_cipher_name = "none";
+            }
 
             if (buf_len(&new_list)> 0)
             {
diff --git a/tests/unit_tests/openvpn/test_ncp.c b/tests/unit_tests/openvpn/test_ncp.c
index a4334c89..4077be5e 100644
--- a/tests/unit_tests/openvpn/test_ncp.c
+++ b/tests/unit_tests/openvpn/test_ncp.c
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@  test_check_ncp_ciphers_list(void **state)
     struct gc_arena gc = gc_new();
     bool have_chacha = cipher_kt_get("CHACHA20-POLY1305");
 
-
+    assert_string_equal(mutate_ncp_cipher_list("none", &gc), "none");
+    assert_string_equal(mutate_ncp_cipher_list("AES-256-GCM:none", &gc),
+                        "AES-256-GCM:none");
 
     assert_string_equal(mutate_ncp_cipher_list(aes_ciphers, &gc), aes_ciphers);
 
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@  test_poor_man(void **state)
     char *best_cipher;
 
     const char *serverlist = "CHACHA20_POLY1305:AES-128-GCM";
-    const char *serverlistbfcbc = "CHACHA20_POLY1305:AES-128-GCM:BF-CBC";
+    const char *serverlistbfcbc = "CHACHA20_POLY1305:AES-128-GCM:BF-CBC:none";
 
     best_cipher = ncp_get_best_cipher(serverlist,
                                       "IV_YOLO=NO\nIV_BAR=7",
@@ -166,6 +168,14 @@  test_poor_man(void **state)
 
     assert_string_equal(best_cipher, "AES-128-GCM");
 
+    best_cipher = ncp_get_best_cipher(serverlist, NULL,
+                                      "none", &gc);
+    assert_ptr_equal(best_cipher, NULL);
+
+    best_cipher = ncp_get_best_cipher(serverlistbfcbc, NULL,
+                                      "none", &gc);
+    assert_string_equal(best_cipher, "none");
+
     best_cipher = ncp_get_best_cipher(serverlist, NULL,NULL, &gc);
     assert_ptr_equal(best_cipher, NULL);