Replace the liboqs-based pre-standardization SPHINCS+ implementation
with the native FIPS 205 SLH-DSA implementation across the
certificate / ASN.1 / X.509 layers, and add SLH-DSA-rooted test
certificates plus TLS 1.3 .conf scenarios that exercise the new
verification path. All liboqs SPHINCS+ code is removed.
This enables SLH-DSA for certificate chain authentication: CA
certificates signed with SLH-DSA, certificate signature verification
against an SLH-DSA root. TLS 1.3 entity authentication via
CertificateVerify with SLH-DSA will be added in a follow-up PR.
Follows RFC 9909 (X.509 Algorithm Identifiers for SLH-DSA) and
NIST FIPS 205. Supports both SHAKE and SHA-2 parameter families
across all twelve standardized variants.
DER codec:
- New PrivateKeyDecode, PublicKeyDecode, KeyToDer, PrivateKeyToDer,
PublicKeyToDer with RFC 9909 encoding (bare OCTET STRING containing
4*n raw bytes = SK.seed || SK.prf || PK.seed || PK.root, no nested
wrapper). OID auto-detection across all twelve SHAKE / SHA-2 variants.
- PublicKeyDecode raw-bytes fast path mirrors wc_Falcon_PublicKeyDecode
and wc_Dilithium_PublicKeyDecode so callers (notably
wolfssl_x509_make_der and ConfirmSignature, which pass the raw
BIT STRING contents stashed by StoreKey) decode correctly. Honours
the caller's *inOutIdx start offset.
- Error paths in Private/PublicKeyDecode preserve params/flags/
inOutIdx and only ForceZero the buffer half each helper actually
writes; skip the wipe entirely on BAD_LENGTH_E (no bytes touched).
- ImportPublic uses |= on flags so a Private-then-Public import
sequence retains FLAG_PRIVATE.
OID dispatch:
- 12 standardized NIST OIDs (6 SHAKE + 6 SHA-2) per RFC 9909. The
pre-standardization OID-collision mechanism is removed since NIST
OIDs do not collide.
- wc_SlhDsaOidToParam / wc_SlhDsaOidToCertType return NOT_COMPILED_IN
(rather than -1) for recognised SLH-DSA OIDs whose parameter set
isn't built; wc_IsSlhDsaOid recognises both. The x509 dispatch
surfaces this as a precise diagnostic instead of the generic
"No public key found".
- wc_GetKeyOID picks a placeholder parameter from whatever variant is
compiled in and #errors at compile time if none is.
- asn_orig.c EncodeCert / EncodeCertReq accept SHA-2 SLH-DSA keyTypes
alongside SHAKE.
Tests and fixtures:
- Test cert chain in certs/slhdsa/: SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128s and
SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s self-signed roots that sign reused ML-DSA-44
entity keys (server + client), plus the gen script
(gen-slhdsa-mldsa-certs.sh, OpenSSL >= 3.5).
- New TLS 1.3 .conf scenarios under tests/suites.c dispatch:
test-tls13-slhdsa-shake.conf, test-tls13-slhdsa-sha2.conf, and a
wrong-CA negative test test-tls13-slhdsa-fail.conf.
- DER round-trip and on-disk decode tests; bench_slhdsa_*_key.der
fixtures regenerated with wolfSSL's own encoder so the codec is
pinned to RFC 9909.
- New unit test test_wc_slhdsa_x509_i2d_roundtrip exercises the raw
PublicKeyDecode entry point that wolfssl_x509_make_der relies on.
- test_wc_slhdsa_check_key now tests both Public-then-Private and
Private-then-Public import orderings.
Build / ABI:
- DYNAMIC_TYPE_SPHINCS = 98 kept as RESERVED with a tombstone comment
for ABI stability; new code should use DYNAMIC_TYPE_SLHDSA (107).
- All build system / IDE project files updated; SPHINCS+ sources,
headers, and test data removed.
- Dead bench_slhdsa_*_key arrays removed from gencertbuf.pl and
certs_test.h; the .der files on disk drive the decode tests.
scripts/pem.test:
* add setup for WOLFSSL_NO_DER_TO_PEM,
* exit early with skip code if executable dependencies are missing or WOLFSSL_NO_PEM or NO_CODING, and
* add clean skip clauses to convert_to_pem(), compare_pem(), and pem_der_exp(), if WOLFSSL_NO_DER_TO_PEM.
Add NETWORK_UNSHARE_HELPER/bwrap wrapping to benchmark.test,
openssl_srtp.test, and sniffer-gen.sh to isolate network namespaces and
prevent port collisions when tests run concurrently. sniffer-gen.sh uses
--cap-add ALL (like dtls.test) since it runs tcpdump. ocsp-stapling.test
is excluded because it connects to external servers (login.live.com).
OCSP Responder Core API:
- Add new public API for creating and managing an OCSP responder
- Add public wrappers for internal OCSP request/response functions
- OcspRespCheck: fix check when authorized responder is loaded into CM
Header Cleanup:
- Remove circular dependency when including `#include <wolfssl/wolfcrypt/asn.h>` from wolfssl/wolfcrypt/ecc.h and wolfssl/wolfcrypt/rsa.h
OCSP Responder Example (examples/ocsp_responder/):
- Add a command-line OCSP responder for interoperability testing with OpenSSL's `openssl ocsp` client
Test Scripts (scripts/):
- ocsp-responder-openssl-interop.test: Tests wolfSSL OCSP responder with `openssl ocsp` client
- ocsp-stapling-with-wolfssl-responder.test: Tests wolfSSL OCSP responder when doing OCSP stapling
Certificate Infrastructure (certs/ocsp/):
- Add DER-format certificates and keys for OCSP testing
- Update renewcerts.sh to generate DER versions
Known Limitations (documented in src/ocsp.c header comment):
- Single request/response per OCSP exchange only
- Key-hash responder ID only (no name-based responder ID)
- No singleExtensions support
Correct the logic for checking if the client and server examples are compiled
in the test scripts. The previous logic was inverted, causing the tests to
always skip if the examples *were* compiled.
Mostly combinations of NO_WOLFSSL_CLIENT, NO_WOLFSSL_SERVER and
WOLFSSL_NO_CLIENT_AUTH were failing.
Added configurations to CI loop.
wc_AesGcmDecryptFinal: use WC_AES_BLOCK_SIZE to satisfy compiler.
New sum algorithm has no clashes at this time.
Old algorithm enabled by defining: WOLFSSL_OLD_OID_SUM.
New oid_sum.h file generated with scripts/asn1_oid_sum.pl.
Added bunch of OID names into asn1 example.
add wolfssl_no_resume flag to openssl.test
check for version of openssl testing against
check if RSA is supported for test case
guard on test case for TLS versions supported
Tobias Frauenschläger
JacobBarthelmeh
Daniel Pouzzner
Juliusz Sosinowicz
Lealem Amedie
Paul Adelsbach
kaleb-himes
David Garske
Josh Holtrop
Sean Parkinson
Chris Conlon
Ruby Martin
Hideki Miyazaki
Colton Willey
suzuki toshiya
Anthony Hu