Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#993 closed defect (wontfix)

support for X25519 in ssl_ecdh_curve

Reported by: Wonderfall@… Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: nginx-core Version: 1.11.x
Keywords: Cc:
uname -a: Linux cat 4.6.1 #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 13:07:39 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nginx -V: nginx version: nginx/1.11.1
built by gcc 5.3.0 (Alpine 5.3.0)
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2 (compatible; BoringSSL) (running with BoringSSL)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/sbin/nginx --with-cc-opt='-g -O3 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -I ../boringssl/.openssl/include/' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -L ../boringssl/.openssl/lib' --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-file-aio --with-threads --with-pcre-jit --without-http_ssi_module --without-http_scgi_module --without-http_uwsgi_module --without-http_geo_module --without-http_autoindex_module --without-http_map_module --without-http_split_clients_module --without-http_memcached_module --without-http_empty_gif_module --without-http_browser_module --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --add-module=/tmp/ngx_brotli

Description

I use nginx statically linked against BoringSSL, which supports X25519. But here is what I get when I set ssl_ecdh_curve to X25519 :

nginx: [emerg] EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name("X25519") failed (SSL: error:0f00007b:elliptic curve routines:OPENSSL_internal:UNKNOWN_GROUP)
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf test failed

(It doesn't seem EC_KEY is used for X25519 in BoringSSL.)

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Maxim Dounin, 9 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

It looks like BoringSSL people took their own way of supporting elliptic curves. Good luck to them, but we have no plans to support BoringSSL-specific API changes. Attempts to do this in the past proved that this clause from BoringSSL's README is indeed true:

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general
use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing
so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI
stability.

If you want to improve things, consider asking BoringSSL to implement SSL_CTX_set1_curves_list() interface instead.

comment:2 by Wonderfall@…, 9 years ago

I already asked them, they replied that they removed it as they don't need it.
So now I clearly understand the meaning of the project.

Last edited 9 years ago by Wonderfall@… (previous) (diff)
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