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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2017 09:32:43 -0700
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Cc:        <bf1783@gmail.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "freebsd-security@freebsd.org security" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org>, Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: Crypto overhaul
Message-ID:  <95044.1509294763@kaos.jnpr.net>
In-Reply-To: <61210249-105c-974c-1dae-1837e5969054@metricspace.net>
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Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> wrote:
> Overall, I think LibreSSL is the best option, though there needs to be
> some investigation into how easily it can be used for kernel and
> boot-loader purposes.  Things like libsodium are too narrow in their
> focus, and BearSSL is too new.

Our userland veriexec binary uses a libverify which is mostly just
OpenSSL (originally structured that way for export reasons ;-)
is 3.6M - at least 90% of that is just OpenSSL.

I tried paring that library down to just the bits needed for loader.
But had to give up at 3M.

Which was when I encounterd BearSSL.
Out of the box, it could verify our ECDSA cert chains as well as
various RSA ones which was a pleasant surprise.

libbearssl is < 1M and my loader is
347K with verifcation vs
237K without, so
the entire verifcation implementation is only 110K

--sjg



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