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[Openvpn-devel,v2,04/20,OSSL,3.0] Remove DES check with OpenSSL 3.0

Message ID 20211019182332.613155-6-arne@rfc2549.org
State Superseded
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Series OpenSSL 3.0 improvements for OpenVPN | expand

Commit Message

Arne Schwabe Oct. 19, 2021, 7:23 a.m. UTC 
DES is very deprecated and accidently getting on the of the 16 insecure
keys that OpenSSL checks is extremely unlikely so we no longer use the
deprecated functions without replacement in OpenSSL 3.0.

Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
---
 src/openvpn/crypto_openssl.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/src/openvpn/crypto_openssl.c b/src/openvpn/crypto_openssl.c
index 021698f12..8db2ddd09 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/crypto_openssl.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/crypto_openssl.c
@@ -521,6 +521,11 @@  key_des_num_cblocks(const EVP_CIPHER *kt)
 bool
 key_des_check(uint8_t *key, int key_len, int ndc)
 {
+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x30000000L
+    /* DES is deprecated and the method to even check the keys is deprecated
+     * in OpenSSL 3.0. Instead of checking for the 16 weak/semi-weak keys
+     * we just accept them in OpenSSL 3.0 since the risk of randomly getting
+     * these is pretty weak */
     int i;
     struct buffer b;
 
@@ -553,6 +558,9 @@  key_des_check(uint8_t *key, int key_len, int ndc)
 err:
     ERR_clear_error();
     return false;
+#else
+    return true;
+#endif
 }
 
 void