1 Introduction

This document defines mechanisms that are anticipated to be used with the current version of PKCS #11.

All text is normative unless otherwise labeled.

1.1 IPR Policy

This specification is provided under the RF on RAND Terms Mode of the OASIS IPR Policy, the mode chosen when the Technical Committee was established. For information on whether any patents have been disclosed that may be essential to implementing this specification, and any offers of patent licensing terms, please refer to the Intellectual Property Rights section of the TC's web page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/pkcs11/ipr.php).

1.2 Terminology

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]

1.3 Definitions

For the purposes of this standard, the following definitions apply. Please refer to the [PKCS#11-Base] for further definitions:

AES Advanced Encryption Standard, as defined in FIPS PUB 197.

CAMELLIA The Camellia encryption algorithm, as defined in RFC 3713.

BLOWFISH The Blowfish Encryption Algorithm of Bruce Schneier, www.schneier.com.

CBC Cipher-Block Chaining mode, as defined in FIPS PUB 81.

CDMF Commercial Data Masking Facility, a block encipherment method specified by International Business Machines Corporation and based on DES.

CMAC Cipher-based Message Authenticate Code as defined in [NIST sp800-38b] and [RFC 4493].

CMS Cryptographic Message Syntax (see RFC 2630)

CT-KIP Cryptographic Token Key Initialization Protocol (as defined in [CT-KIP])

DES Data Encryption Standard, as defined in FIPS PUB 46-3.

DSA Digital Signature Algorithm, as defined in FIPS PUB 186-2.

EC Elliptic Curve

ECB Electronic Codebook mode, as defined in FIPS PUB 81.

ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman.

ECDSA Elliptic Curve DSA, as in ANSI X9.62.

ECMQV Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone

GOST 28147-89 The encryption algorithm, as defined in Part 2 [GOST 28147-89] and [RFC 4357] [RFC 4490], and RFC [4491].

GOST R 34.11-94 Hash algorithm, as defined in [GOST R 34.11-94] and [RFC 4357], [RFC 4490], and [RFC 4491].

GOST R 34.10-2001 The digital signature algorithm, as defined in [GOST R 34.10-2001] and [RFC 4357], [RFC 4490], and [RFC 4491].

IV Initialization Vector.

MAC Message Authentication Code.

MQV Menezes-Qu-Vanstone

OAEP Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding for RSA.

PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standards.

PRF Pseudo random function.

PTD Personal Trusted Device, as defined in MeT-PTD

RSA The RSA public-key cryptosystem.

SHA-1 The (revised) Secure Hash Algorithm with a 160-bit message digest, as defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

SHA-224 The Secure Hash Algorithm with a 224-bit message digest, as defined in RFC 3874. Also defined in FIPS PUB 180-2 with Change Notice 1.

SHA-256 The Secure Hash Algorithm with a 256-bit message digest, as defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

SHA-384 The Secure Hash Algorithm with a 384-bit message digest, as defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

SHA-512 The Secure Hash Algorithm with a 512-bit message digest, as defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

SSL The Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 protocol.

SO A Security Officer user.

TLS Transport Layer Security.

WIM Wireless Identification Module.

WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security.

1.4 Normative References

[ARIA] National Security Research Institute, Korea, “Block Cipher Algorithm ARIA”,
URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5794

[BLOWFISH] B. Schneier. Description of a New Variable-Length Key, 64-Bit Block Cipher (Blowfish), December 1993.
URL: https://www.schneier.com/paper-blowfish-fse.html

[CAMELLIA] M. Matsui, J. Nakajima, S. Moriai. A Description of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm, April 2004.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3713.txt

[CDMF] Johnson, D.B The Commercial Data Masking Facility (CDMF) data privacy algorithm, March 1994.
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5389557

[CHACHA] D. Bernstein, ChaCha, a variant of Salsa20, Jan 2008.
URL: http://cr.yp.to/chacha/chacha-20080128.pdf

[DH] W. Diffie, M. Hellman. New Directions in Cryptography. Nov, 1976.
URL: http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf

[FIPS PUB 81] NIST. FIPS 81: DES Modes of Operation. December 1980.

URL: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips81/fips81.htm

[FIPS PUB 186-4] NIST. FIPS 186-4: Digital Signature Standard. July 2013.
URL: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-4.pdf

[FIPS PUB 197] NIST. FIPS 197: Advanced Encryption Standard. November 26, 2001.
URL: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf

[FIPS SP 800-56A] NIST. Special Publication 800-56A Revision 2: Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, May 2013.
URL: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-56Ar2.pdf

[FIPS SP 800-108] NIST. Special Publication 800-108 (Revised): Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions, October 2009.
URL: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-108.pdf

[GOST] V. Dolmatov, A. Degtyarev. GOST R. 34.11-2012: Hash Function. August 2013.
URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6986

[MD2] B. Kaliski. RSA Laboratories. The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm. April, 1992.
URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1319

[MD5] RSA Data Security. R. Rivest. The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm. April, 1992.
URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1319

[OAEP] M. Bellare, P. Rogaway. Optimal Asymmetric Encryption – How to Encrypt with RSA. Nov 19, 1995.
URL: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/papers/oae.pdf

[PKCS11-Base] PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface Base Specification Version 3.0. Edited by Chris Zimman and Dieter Bong. Latest version. https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-base/v3.0/pkcs11-base-v3.0.html.

[PKCS11-Hist] PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface Historical Mechanisms Specification Version 3.0. Edited by Chris Zimman and Dieter Bong. Latest version. https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-hist/v3.0/pkcs11-hist-v3.0.html.

[PKCS11-Prof] PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface Profiles Version 3.0. Edited by Tim Hudson. Latest version. https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-profiles/v3.0/pkcs11-profiles-v3.0.html.

[POLY1305] D.J. Bernstein. The Poly1305-AES message-authentication code. Jan 2005.
URL: https://cr.yp.to/mac/poly1305-20050329.pdf

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels”, BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt.

[RIPEMD] H. Dobbertin, A. Bosselaers, B. Preneel. The hash function RIPEMD-160, Feb 13, 2012.
URL: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html

[SALSA] D. Bernstein, ChaCha, a variant of Salsa20, Jan 2008.
URL: http://cr.yp.to/chacha/chacha-20080128.pdf

[SEED] KISA. SEED 128 Algorithm Specification. Sep 2003.
URL: http://seed.kisa.or.kr/html/egovframework/iwt/ds/ko/ref/%5B2%5D_SEED+128_Specification_english_M.pdf

[SHA-1] NIST. FIPS 180-4: Secure Hash Standard. March 2012.
URL: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/fips-180-4.pdf

[SHA-2] NIST. FIPS 180-4: Secure Hash Standard. March 2012.
URL: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/fips-180-4.pdf

[TWOFISH] B. Schneier, J. Kelsey, D. Whiting, C. Hall, N. Ferguson. Twofish: A 128-Bit Block Cipher. June 15, 1998.
URL: https://www.schneier.com/paper-twofish-paper.pdf

1.5 Non-Normative References

[CAP-1.2] Common Alerting Protocol Version 1.2. 01 July 2010. OASIS Standard.
URL: http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.html

[AES KEYWRAP] National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Special Publication 800-38F, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Key Wrapping, December 2012, http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-38F.pdf

[ANSI C] ANSI/ISO. American National Standard for Programming Languages – C. 1990.

[ANSI X9.31] Accredited Standards Committee X9. Digital Signatures Using Reversible Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry (rDSA). 1998.

[ANSI X9.42] Accredited Standards Committee X9. Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry: Agreement of Symmetric Keys Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography. 2003.

[ANSI X9.62] Accredited Standards Committee X9. Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry: The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). 1998.

[ANSI X9.63] Accredited Standards Committee X9. Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry: Key Agreement and Key Transport Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography. 2001.
URL: http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=X9.63-2011

[BRAINPOOL] ECC Brainpool Standard Curves and Curve Generation, v1.0, 19.10.2005
URL: http://www.ecc-brainpool.org

[CT-KIP] RSA Laboratories. Cryptographic Token Key Initialization Protocol. Version 1.0, December 2005.
URL: ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/otps/ct-kip/ct-kip-v1-0.pdf.

[CC/PP] CCPP-STRUCT-VOCAB, G. Klyne, F. Reynolds, C. , H. Ohto, J. Hjelm, M. H. Butler, L. Tran, Editors, W3C Recommendation, 15 January 2004,
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-CCPP-struct-vocab-20040115/
Latest version available at http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-struct-vocab/

[LEGIFRANCE] Avis relatif aux paramètres de courbes elliptiques définis par l'Etat français (Publication of elliptic curve parameters by the French state)
URL: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000024668816

[NIST AES CTS] National Institute of Standards and Technology, Addendum to NIST Special Publication 800-38A, “Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Three Variants of Ciphertext Stealing for CBC Mode”
URL: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-38a/addendum-to-nist_sp800-38A.pdf

[PKCS11-UG] PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface Usage Guide Version 2.41. Edited by John Leiseboer and Robert Griffin. version: http://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-ug/v2.40/pkcs11-ug-v2.40.html.

[RFC 2865] Rigney et al, “Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)”, IETF RFC2865, June 2000.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2865.txt.

[RFC 3686] Housley, “Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Counter Mode With IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP),” IETF RFC 3686, January 2004.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3686.txt.

[RFC 3717] Matsui, et al, ”A Description of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm,” IETF RFC 3717, April 2004.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3713.txt.

[RFC 3610] Whiting, D., Housley, R., and N. Ferguson, “Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM)", IETF RFC 3610, September 2003.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3610.txt

[RFC 3874] Smit et al, “A 224-bit One-way Hash Function: SHA-224,” IETF RFC 3874, June 2004.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3874.txt.

[RFC 3748] Aboba et al, “Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)”, IETF RFC 3748, June 2004.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3748.txt.

[RFC 4269] South Korean Information Security Agency (KISA) “The SEED Encryption Algorithm”, December 2005.
URL: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4269.txt

[RFC 4309] Housley, R., “Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) CCM Mode with IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP),” IETF RFC 4309, December 2005.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4309.txt

[RFC 4357] V. Popov, I. Kurepkin, S. Leontiev “Additional Cryptographic Algorithms for Use with GOST 28147-89, GOST R 34.10-94, GOST R 34.10-2001, and GOST R 34.11-94 Algorithms”, January 2006.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4357.txt

[RFC 4490] S. Leontiev, Ed. G. Chudov, Ed. “Using the GOST 28147-89, GOST R 34.11-94,GOST R 34.10-94, and GOST R 34.10-2001 Algorithms with Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)”, May 2006.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4490.txt

[RFC 4491] S. Leontiev, Ed., D. Shefanovski, Ed., “Using the GOST R 34.10-94, GOST R 34.10-2001, and GOST R 34.11-94 Algorithms with the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile”, May 2006.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4491.txt

[RFC 4493] J. Song et al. RFC 4493: The AES-CMAC Algorithm. June 2006.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4493.txt

[RFC 5705] Rescorla, E., “The Keying Material Exporters for Transport Layer Security (TLS)”, RFC 5705, March 2010.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5705.txt

[RFC 5869] H. Krawczyk, P. Eronen, “HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF)“, May 2010
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5869.txt

[RFC 7539] Y Nir, A. Langley. RFC 7539: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols, May 2015
URL: https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7539.txt

[RFC 7748] Aboba et al, “Elliptic Curves for Security”, IETF RFC 7748, January 2016
URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7748

[RFC 8032] Aboba et al, “Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)”, IETF RFC 8032, January 2017
URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8032

[SEC 1] Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG). Standards for Efficient Cryptography (SEC) 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Version 1.0, September 20, 2000.

[SEC 2] Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG). Standards for Efficient Cryptography (SEC) 2: Recommended Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters. Version 1.0, September 20, 2000.

[SIGNAL] The X3DH Key Agreement Protocol, Revision 1, 2016-11-04, Moxie Marlinspike, Trevor Perrin (editor)
URL: https://signal.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/

[TLS] [RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0", RFC 2246, January 1999. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt, superseded by [RFC4346] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1", RFC 4346, April 2006. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4346.txt, which was superseded by [5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5246.txt

[TLS12] [RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5246.txt

[TLS13] [RFC8446] E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3", RFC 8446, August 2018.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc8446.txt

[WIM] WAP. Wireless Identity Module. — WAP-260-WIM-20010712-a. July 2001.
URL: http://technical.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/LicenseAgreement.asp?DocName=/wap/wap-260-wim-20010712-a.pdf

[WPKI] Wireless Application Protocol: Public Key Infrastructure Definition. — WAP-217-WPKI-20010424-a. April 2001.
URL: http://technical.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/LicenseAgreement.asp?DocName=/wap/wap-217-wpki-20010424-a.pdf

[WTLS] WAP. Wireless Transport Layer Security Version — WAP-261-WTLS-20010406-a. April 2001.
URL: http://technical.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/LicenseAgreement.asp?DocName=/wap/wap-261-wtls-20010406-a.pdf

[XEDDSA] The XEdDSA and VXEdDSA Signature Schemes - Revision 1, 2016-10-20, Trevor Perrin (editor)
URL: https://signal.org/docs/specifications/xeddsa/

[X.500] ITU-T. Information Technology — Open Systems Interconnection — The Directory: Overview of Concepts, Models and Services. February 2001. Identical to ISO/IEC 9594-1

[X.509] ITU-T. Information Technology — Open Systems Interconnection — The Directory: Public-key and Attribute Certificate Frameworks. March 2000. Identical to ISO/IEC 9594-8

[X.680] ITU-T. Information Technology — Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of Basic Notation. July 2002. Identical to ISO/IEC 8824-1

[X.690] ITU-T. Information Technology — ASN.1 Encoding Rules: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER), and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER). July 2002. Identical to ISO/IEC 8825-1

2 Mechanisms

A mechanism specifies precisely how a certain cryptographic process is to be performed. PKCS #11 implementations MAY use one of more mechanisms defined in this document.

The following table shows which Cryptoki mechanisms are supported by different cryptographic operations. For any particular token, of course, a particular operation may well support only a subset of the mechanisms listed. There is also no guarantee that a token which supports one mechanism for some operations supports any other mechanism for any other operation (or even supports that same mechanism for any other operation). For example, even if a token is able to create RSA digital signatures with the CKM_RSA_PKCS mechanism, it may or may not be the case that the same token can also perform RSA encryption with CKM_RSA_PKCS.

Each mechanism description is be preceded by a table, of the following format, mapping mechanisms to API functions.

Functions

Mechanism

Encrypt

Decrypt

Sign

Verify

VR¹

Digest

Gen.

Key/

Key

Pair

Wrap

Unwrap

Derive

¹ SR = SignRecover, VR = VerifyRecover.

2 Single-part operations only.

3 Mechanism can only be used for wrapping, not unwrapping.

The remainder of this section will present in detail the mechanisms supported by Cryptoki and the parameters which are supplied to them.

In general, if a mechanism makes no mention of the ulMinKeyLen and ulMaxKeyLen fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure, then those fields have no meaning for that particular mechanism.

2.1 RSA

Table 1, Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_RSA_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_RSA_X9_31_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_RSA_PKCS	ü²	ü²	ü			ü
CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP	ü²					ü
CKM_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü²
CKM_RSA_9796		ü²	ü
CKM_RSA_X_509	ü²	ü²	ü			ü
CKM_RSA_X9_31		ü²
CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA384_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA512_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA384_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA512_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA1_RSA_X9_31		ü
CKM_RSA_PKCS_TPM_1_1	ü²					ü
CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_TPM_1_1	ü²					ü
CKM_SHA3_224_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA3_256_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA3_384_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA3_512_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA3_224_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA3_256_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA3_384_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA3_512_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü

2.1.1 Definitions

This section defines the RSA key type “CKK_RSA” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of RSA key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_RSA_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_RSA_PKCS

CKM_RSA_9796

CKM_RSA_X_509

CKM_MD2_RSA_PKCS

CKM_MD5_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA224_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA384_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA512_RSA_PKCS

CKM_RIPEMD128_RSA_PKCS

CKM_RIPEMD160_RSA_PKCS

CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP

CKM_RSA_X9_31_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_RSA_X9_31

CKM_SHA1_RSA_X9_31

CKM_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA224_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA512_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA384_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_RSA_PKCS_TPM_1_1

CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_TPM_1_1

CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP

CKM_SHA3_224_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA3_256_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA3_384_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA3_512_RSA_PKCS

CKM_SHA3_224_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA3_256_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA3_384_RSA_PKCS_PSS

CKM_SHA3_512_RSA_PKCS_PSS

2.1.2 RSA public key objects

RSA public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_RSA) hold RSA public keys. The following table defines the RSA public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 2, RSA Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_MODULUS^1,4	Big integer	Modulus n
CKA_MODULUS_BITS^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length in bits of modulus n
CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT¹	Big integer	Public exponent e

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

Depending on the token, there may be limits on the length of key components. See PKCS #1 for more information on RSA keys.

The following is a sample template for creating an RSA public key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_RSA;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An RSA public key object”;

CK_BYTE modulus[] = {...};

CK_BYTE exponent[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_WRAP, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_MODULUS, modulus, sizeof(modulus)},

{CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT, exponent, sizeof(exponent)}

};

2.1.3 RSA private key objects

RSA private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_RSA) hold RSA private keys. The following table defines the RSA private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 3, RSA Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_MODULUS^1,4,6	Big integer	Modulus n
CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT^4,6	Big integer	Public exponent e
CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT^1,4,6,7	Big integer	Private exponent d
CKA_PRIME_1^4,6,7	Big integer	Prime p
CKA_PRIME_2^4,6,7	Big integer	Prime q
CKA_EXPONENT_1^4,6,7	Big integer	Private exponent d modulo p-1
CKA_EXPONENT_2^4,6,7	Big integer	Private exponent d modulo q-1
CKA_COEFFICIENT^4,6,7	Big integer	CRT coefficient q^-1 mod p

^{- Refer
to [PKCS11-Base] table 11 for footnotes}

Depending on the token, there may be limits on the length of the key components. See PKCS #1 for more information on RSA keys.

Tokens vary in what they actually store for RSA private keys. Some tokens store all of the above attributes, which can assist in performing rapid RSA computations. Other tokens might store only the CKA_MODULUS and CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT values. Effective with version 2.40, tokens MUST also store CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT. This permits the retrieval of sufficient data to reconstitute the associated public key.

Because of this, Cryptoki is flexible in dealing with RSA private key objects. When a token generates an RSA private key, it stores whichever of the fields in Table 3 it keeps track of. Later, if an application asks for the values of the key’s various attributes, Cryptoki supplies values only for attributes whose values it can obtain (i.e., if Cryptoki is asked for the value of an attribute it cannot obtain, the request fails). Note that a Cryptoki implementation may or may not be able and/or willing to supply various attributes of RSA private keys which are not actually stored on the token. E.g., if a particular token stores values only for the CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT, CKA_PRIME_1, and CKA_PRIME_2 attributes, then Cryptoki is certainly able to report values for all the attributes above (since they can all be computed efficiently from these three values). However, a Cryptoki implementation may or may not actually do this extra computation. The only attributes from Table 3 for which a Cryptoki implementation is required to be able to return values are CKA_MODULUS and CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT.

If an RSA private key object is created on a token, and more attributes from Table 3 are supplied to the object creation call than are supported by the token, the extra attributes are likely to be thrown away. If an attempt is made to create an RSA private key object on a token with insufficient attributes for that particular token, then the object creation call fails and returns CKR_TEMPLATE_INCOMPLETE.

Note that when generating an RSA private key, there is no CKA_MODULUS_BITS attribute specified. This is because RSA private keys are only generated as part of an RSA key pair, and the CKA_MODULUS_BITS attribute for the pair is specified in the template for the RSA public key.

The following is a sample template for creating an RSA private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_RSA;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An RSA private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE modulus[] = {...};

CK_BYTE publicExponent[] = {...};

CK_BYTE privateExponent[] = {...};

CK_BYTE prime1[] = {...};

CK_BYTE prime2[] = {...};

CK_BYTE exponent1[] = {...};

CK_BYTE exponent2[] = {...};

CK_BYTE coefficient[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_DECRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_SIGN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_MODULUS, modulus, sizeof(modulus)},

{CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT, publicExponent, sizeof(publicExponent)},

{CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT, privateExponent, sizeof(privateExponent)},

{CKA_PRIME_1, prime1, sizeof(prime1)},

{CKA_PRIME_2, prime2, sizeof(prime2)},

{CKA_EXPONENT_1, exponent1, sizeof(exponent1)},

{CKA_EXPONENT_2, exponent2, sizeof(exponent2)},

{CKA_COEFFICIENT, coefficient, sizeof(coefficient)}

};

2.1.4 PKCS #1 RSA key pair generation

The PKCS #1 RSA key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem, as defined in PKCS #1.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates RSA public/private key pairs with a particular modulus length in bits and public exponent, as specified in the CKA_MODULUS_BITS and CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT attributes of the template for the public key. The CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT may be omitted in which case the mechanism shall supply the public exponent attribute using the default value of 0x10001 (65537). Specific implementations may use a random value or an alternative default if 0x10001 cannot be used by the token.

Note: Implementations strictly compliant with version 2.11 or prior versions may generate an error if this attribute is omitted from the template. Experience has shown that many implementations of 2.11 and prior did allow the CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT attribute to be omitted from the template, and behaved as described above. The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_MODULUS, and CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT attributes to the new public key. CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT will be copied from the template if supplied. CKR_TEMPLATE_INCONSISTENT shall be returned if the implementation cannot use the supplied exponent value. It contributes the CKA_CLASS and CKA_KEY_TYPE attributes to the new private key; it may also contribute some of the following attributes to the new private key: CKA_MODULUS, CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT, CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT, CKA_PRIME_1, CKA_PRIME_2, CKA_EXPONENT_1, CKA_EXPONENT_2, CKA_COEFFICIENT. Other attributes supported by the RSA public and private key types (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the keys support) may also be specified in the templates for the keys, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.5 X9.31 RSA key pair generation

The X9.31 RSA key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_X9_31_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem, as defined in X9.31.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_MODULUS, and CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT attributes to the new public key. It contributes the CKA_CLASS and CKA_KEY_TYPE attributes to the new private key; it may also contribute some of the following attributes to the new private key: CKA_MODULUS, CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT, CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT, CKA_PRIME_1, CKA_PRIME_2, CKA_EXPONENT_1, CKA_EXPONENT_2, CKA_COEFFICIENT. Other attributes supported by the RSA public and private key types (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the keys support) may also be specified in the templates for the keys, or else are assigned default initial values. Unlike the CKM_RSA_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN mechanism, this mechanism is guaranteed to generate p and q values, CKA_PRIME_1 and CKA_PRIME_2 respectively, that meet the strong primes requirement of X9.31.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.6 PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA

The PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_PKCS, is a multi-purpose mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the block formats initially defined in PKCS #1 v1.5. It supports single-part encryption and decryption; single-part signatures and verification with and without message recovery; key wrapping; and key unwrapping. This mechanism corresponds only to the part of PKCS #1 v1.5 that involves RSA; it does not compute a message digest or a DigestInfo encoding as specified for the md2withRSAEncryption and md5withRSAEncryption algorithms in PKCS #1 v1.5 .

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

This mechanism can wrap and unwrap any secret key of appropriate length. Of course, a particular token may not be able to wrap/unwrap every appropriate-length secret key that it supports. For wrapping, the “input” to the encryption operation is the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped; similarly for unwrapping. The mechanism does not wrap the key type or any other information about the key, except the key length; the application must convey these separately. In particular, the mechanism contributes only the CKA_CLASS and CKA_VALUE (and CKA_VALUE_LEN, if the key has it) attributes to the recovered key during unwrapping; other attributes must be specified in the template.

Constraints on key types and the length of the data are summarized in the following table. For encryption, decryption, signatures and signature verification, the input and output data may begin at the same location in memory. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus.

Table 4, PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt¹	RSA public key	£ k-11	k	block type 02
C_Decrypt¹	RSA private key	k	£ k-11	block type 02
C_Sign¹	RSA private key	£ k-11	k	block type 01
C_SignRecover	RSA private key	£ k-11	k	block type 01
C_Verify¹	RSA public key	£ k-11, k²	N/A	block type 01
C_VerifyRecover	RSA public key	k	£ k-11	block type 01
C_WrapKey	RSA public key	£ k-11	k	block type 02
C_UnwrapKey	RSA private key	k	£ k-11	block type 02

¹ Single-part operations only.

2 Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.7 PKCS #1 RSA OAEP mechanism parameters

¨ CK_RSA_PKCS_MGF_TYPE; CK_RSA_PKCS_MGF_TYPE_PTR

CK_RSA_PKCS_MGF_TYPE is used to indicate the Message Generation Function (MGF) applied to a message block when formatting a message block for the PKCS #1 OAEP encryption scheme or the PKCS #1 PSS signature scheme. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_RSA_PKCS_MGF_TYPE;

The following MGFs are defined in PKCS #1. The following table lists the defined functions.

Table 5, PKCS #1 Mask Generation Functions

Source Identifier	Value
CKG_MGF1_SHA1	0x00000001UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA224	0x00000005UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA256	0x00000002UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA384	0x00000003UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA512	0x00000004UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA3_224	0x00000006UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA3_256	0x00000007UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA3_384	0x00000008UL
CKG_MGF1_SHA3_512	0x00000009UL

CK_RSA_PKCS_MGF_TYPE_PTR is a pointer to a CK_RSA_PKCS_ MGF_TYPE.

¨ CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_SOURCE_TYPE; CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_SOURCE_TYPE_PTR

CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_SOURCE_TYPE is used to indicate the source of the encoding parameter when formatting a message block for the PKCS #1 OAEP encryption scheme. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_SOURCE_TYPE;

The following encoding parameter sources are defined in PKCS #1. The following table lists the defined sources along with the corresponding data type for the pSourceData field in the CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS structure defined below.

Table 6, PKCS #1 RSA OAEP: Encoding parameter sources

Source Identifier	Value	Data Type
CKZ_DATA_SPECIFIED	0x00000001UL	Array of CK_BYTE containing the value of the encoding parameter. If the parameter is empty, pSourceData must be NULL and ulSourceDataLen must be zero.

CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_SOURCE_TYPE_PTR is a pointer to a CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_SOURCE_TYPE.

¨ CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS; CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS_PTR

CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP mechanism. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE hashAlg;

CK_RSA_PKCS_MGF_TYPE mgf;

CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_SOURCE_TYPE source;

CK_VOID_PTR pSourceData;

CK_ULONG ulSourceDataLen;

} CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

hashAlg mechanism ID of the message digest algorithm used to calculate the digest of the encoding parameter

mgf mask generation function to use on the encoded block

source source of the encoding parameter

pSourceData data used as the input for the encoding parameter source

ulSourceDataLen length of the encoding parameter source input

CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS.

2.1.8 PKCS #1 RSA OAEP

The PKCS #1 RSA OAEP mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP, is a multi-purpose mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the OAEP block format defined in PKCS #1. It supports single-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping.

It has a parameter, a CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS structure.

Constraints on key types and the length of the data are summarized in the following table. For encryption and decryption, the input and output data may begin at the same location in memory. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus, and hLen is the output length of the message digest algorithm specified by the hashAlg field of the CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS structure.

Table 7, PKCS #1 RSA OAEP: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt¹	RSA public key	£ k-2-2hLen	k
C_Decrypt¹	RSA private key	k	£ k-2-2hLen
C_WrapKey	RSA public key	£ k-2-2hLen	k
C_UnwrapKey	RSA private key	k	£ k-2-2hLen

¹ Single-part operations only.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.9 PKCS #1 RSA PSS mechanism parameters

¨ CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS; CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS_PTR

CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_RSA_PKCS_PSS mechanism. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE hashAlg;

CK_RSA_PKCS_MGF_TYPE mgf;

CK_ULONG sLen;

} CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

hashAlg hash algorithm used in the PSS encoding; if the signature mechanism does not include message hashing, then this value must be the mechanism used by the application to generate the message hash; if the signature mechanism includes hashing, then this value must match the hash algorithm indicated by the signature mechanism

mgf mask generation function to use on the encoded block

sLen length, in bytes, of the salt value used in the PSS encoding; typical values are the length of the message hash and zero

CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS.

2.1.10 PKCS #1 RSA PSS

The PKCS #1 RSA PSS mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_PKCS_PSS, is a mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the PSS block format defined in PKCS #1. It supports single-part signature generation and verification without message recovery. This mechanism corresponds only to the part of PKCS #1 that involves block formatting and RSA, given a hash value; it does not compute a hash value on the message to be signed.

It has a parameter, a CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS structure. The sLen field must be less than or equal to k*-2-hLen and hLen is the length of the input to the C_Sign or C_Verify function. k* is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus, except if the length in bits of the RSA modulus is one more than a multiple of 8, in which case k* is one less than the length in bytes of the RSA modulus.

Constraints on key types and the length of the data are summarized in the following table. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA.

Table 8, PKCS #1 RSA PSS: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign¹	RSA private key	hLen	k
C_Verify¹	RSA public key	hLen, k	N/A

¹ Single-part operations only.

2 Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.11 ISO/IEC 9796 RSA

The ISO/IEC 9796 RSA mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_9796, is a mechanism for single-part signatures and verification with and without message recovery based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the block formats defined in ISO/IEC 9796 and its annex A.

This mechanism processes only byte strings, whereas ISO/IEC 9796 operates on bit strings. Accordingly, the following transformations are performed:

· Data is converted between byte and bit string formats by interpreting the most-significant bit of the leading byte of the byte string as the leftmost bit of the bit string, and the least-significant bit of the trailing byte of the byte string as the rightmost bit of the bit string (this assumes the length in bits of the data is a multiple of 8).

· A signature is converted from a bit string to a byte string by padding the bit string on the left with 0 to 7 zero bits so that the resulting length in bits is a multiple of 8, and converting the resulting bit string as above; it is converted from a byte string to a bit string by converting the byte string as above, and removing bits from the left so that the resulting length in bits is the same as that of the RSA modulus.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus.

Table 9, ISO/IEC 9796 RSA: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign¹	RSA private key	£ ëk/2û	k
C_SignRecover	RSA private key	£ ëk/2û	k
C_Verify¹	RSA public key	£ ëk/2û, k²	N/A
C_VerifyRecover	RSA public key	k	£ ëk/2û

¹ Single-part operations only.

2 Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.12 X.509 (raw) RSA

The X.509 (raw) RSA mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_X_509, is a multi-purpose mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem. It supports single-part encryption and decryption; single-part signatures and verification with and without message recovery; key wrapping; and key unwrapping. All these operations are based on so-called “raw” RSA, as assumed in X.509.

“Raw” RSA as defined here encrypts a byte string by converting it to an integer, most-significant byte first, applying “raw” RSA exponentiation, and converting the result to a byte string, most-significant byte first. The input string, considered as an integer, must be less than the modulus; the output string is also less than the modulus.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

This mechanism can wrap and unwrap any secret key of appropriate length. Of course, a particular token may not be able to wrap/unwrap every appropriate-length secret key that it supports. For wrapping, the “input” to the encryption operation is the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped; similarly for unwrapping. The mechanism does not wrap the key type, key length, or any other information about the key; the application must convey these separately, and supply them when unwrapping the key.

Unfortunately, X.509 does not specify how to perform padding for RSA encryption. For this mechanism, padding should be performed by prepending plaintext data with 0-valued bytes. In effect, to encrypt the sequence of plaintext bytes b₁ b₂ … b_n (n £ k), Cryptoki forms P=2^n-1b₁+2^n-2b₂+…+b_n. This number must be less than the RSA modulus. The k-byte ciphertext (k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus) is produced by raising P to the RSA public exponent modulo the RSA modulus. Decryption of a k-byte ciphertext C is accomplished by raising C to the RSA private exponent modulo the RSA modulus, and returning the resulting value as a sequence of exactly k bytes. If the resulting plaintext is to be used to produce an unwrapped key, then however many bytes are specified in the template for the length of the key are taken from the end of this sequence of bytes.

Technically, the above procedures may differ very slightly from certain details of what is specified in X.509.

Executing cryptographic operations using this mechanism can result in the error returns CKR_DATA_INVALID (if plaintext is supplied which has the same length as the RSA modulus and is numerically at least as large as the modulus) and CKR_ENCRYPTED_DATA_INVALID (if ciphertext is supplied which has the same length as the RSA modulus and is numerically at least as large as the modulus).

Constraints on key types and the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus.

Table 10, X.509 (Raw) RSA: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt¹	RSA public key	£ k	k
C_Decrypt¹	RSA private key	k	k
C_Sign¹	RSA private key	£ k	k
C_SignRecover	RSA private key	£ k	k
C_Verify¹	RSA public key	£ k, k²	N/A
C_VerifyRecover	RSA public key	k	k
C_WrapKey	RSA public key	£ k	k
C_UnwrapKey	RSA private key	k	£ k (specified in template)

¹ Single-part operations only.

2 Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

This mechanism is intended for compatibility with applications that do not follow the PKCS #1 or ISO/IEC 9796 block formats.

2.1.13 ANSI X9.31 RSA

The ANSI X9.31 RSA mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_X9_31, is a mechanism for single-part signatures and verification without message recovery based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the block formats defined in ANSI X9.31.

This mechanism applies the header and padding fields of the hash encapsulation. The trailer field must be applied by the application.

This mechanism processes only byte strings, whereas ANSI X9.31 operates on bit strings. Accordingly, the following transformations are performed:

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus. For all operations, the k value must be at least 128 and a multiple of 32 as specified in ANSI X9.31.

Table 11, ANSI X9.31 RSA: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign¹	RSA private key	£ k-2	k
C_Verify¹	RSA public key	£ k-2, k²	N/A

¹ Single-part operations only.

2 Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.14 PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with MD2, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, RIPE-MD 128 or RIPE-MD 160

The PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with MD2 mechanism, denoted CKM_MD2_RSA_PKCS, performs single- and multiple-part digital signatures and verification operations without message recovery. The operations performed are as described initially in PKCS #1 v1.5 with the object identifier md2WithRSAEncryption, and as in the scheme RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 in the current version of PKCS #1, where the underlying hash function is MD2.

Similarly, the PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with MD5 mechanism, denoted CKM_MD5_RSA_PKCS, performs the same operations described in PKCS #1 with the object identifier md5WithRSAEncryption. The PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS, performs the same operations, except that it uses the hash function SHA-1 with object identifier sha1WithRSAEncryption.

Likewise, the PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 mechanisms, denoted CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS, CKM_SHA384_RSA_PKCS, and CKM_SHA512_RSA_PKCS respectively, perform the same operations using the SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hash functions with the object identifiers sha256WithRSAEncryption, sha384WithRSAEncryption and sha512WithRSAEncryption respectively.

The PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with RIPEMD-128 or RIPEMD-160, denoted CKM_RIPEMD128_RSA_PKCS and CKM_RIPEMD160_RSA_PKCS respectively, perform the same operations using the RIPE-MD 128 and RIPE-MD 160 hash functions.

None of these mechanisms has a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of the data for these mechanisms are summarized in the following table. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus. For the PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with MD2 and PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with MD5 mechanisms, k must be at least 27; for the PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with SHA-1 mechanism, k must be at least 31, and so on for other underlying hash functions, where the minimum is always 11 bytes more than the length of the hash value.

Table 12, PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA Signatures with Various Hash Functions: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Sign	RSA private key	any	k	block type 01
C_Verify	RSA public key	any, k²	N/A	block type 01

² Data length, signature length.

For these mechanisms, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.15 PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with SHA-224

The PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with SHA-224 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA224_RSA_PKCS, performs similarly as the other CKM_SHAX_RSA_PKCS mechanisms but uses the SHA-224 hash function.

2.1.16 PKCS #1 RSA PSS signature with SHA-224

The PKCS #1 RSA PSS signature with SHA-224 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA224_RSA_PKCS_PSS, performs similarly as the other CKM_SHAX_RSA_ PKCS_PSS mechanisms but uses the SHA-224 hash function.

2.1.17 PKCS #1 RSA PSS signature with SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 or SHA-512

The PKCS #1 RSA PSS signature with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS_PSS, performs single- and multiple-part digital signatures and verification operations without message recovery. The operations performed are as described in PKCS #1 with the object identifier id-RSASSA-PSS, i.e., as in the scheme RSASSA-PSS in PKCS #1 where the underlying hash function is SHA-1.

The PKCS #1 RSA PSS signature with SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 mechanisms, denoted CKM_SHA256_RSA_PKCS_PSS, CKM_SHA384_RSA_PKCS_PSS, and CKM_SHA512_RSA_PKCS_PSS respectively, perform the same operations using the SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hash functions.

The mechanisms have a parameter, a CK_RSA_PKCS_PSS_PARAMS structure. The sLen field must be less than or equal to k*-2-hLen where hLen is the length in bytes of the hash value. k* is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus, except if the length in bits of the RSA modulus is one more than a multiple of 8, in which case k* is one less than the length in bytes of the RSA modulus.

Constraints on key types and the length of the data are summarized in the following table. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus.

Table 13, PKCS #1 RSA PSS Signatures with Various Hash Functions: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	RSA private key	any	k
C_Verify	RSA public key	any, k²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.18 PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with SHA3

The PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signature with SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512 mechanisms, denoted CKM_SHA3_224_RSA_PKCS, CKM_SHA3_256_RSA_PKCS, CKM_SHA3_384_RSA_PKCS, and CKM_SHA3_512_RSA_PKCS respectively, performs similarly as the other CKM_SHAX_RSA_PKCS mechanisms but uses the corresponding SHA3 hash functions.

2.1.19 PKCS #1 RSA PSS signature with SHA3

The PKCS #1 RSA PSS signature with SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512 mechanisms, denoted CKM_SHA3_224_RSA_PKCS_PSS, CKM_SHA3_256_RSA_PKCS_PSS, CKM_SHA3_384_RSA_PKCS_PSS, and CKM_SHA3_512_RSA_PKCS_PSS respectively, performs similarly as the other CKM_SHAX_RSA_PKCS_PSS mechanisms but uses the corresponding SHA-3 hash functions.

2.1.20 ANSI X9.31 RSA signature with SHA-1

The ANSI X9.31 RSA signature with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA1_RSA_X9_31, performs single- and multiple-part digital signatures and verification operations without message recovery. The operations performed are as described in ANSI X9.31.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of the data for these mechanisms are summarized in the following table. In the table, k is the length in bytes of the RSA modulus. For all operations, the k value must be at least 128 and a multiple of 32 as specified in ANSI X9.31.

Table 14, ANSI X9.31 RSA Signatures with SHA-1: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	RSA private key	any	k
C_Verify	RSA public key	any, k²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

For these mechanisms, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.21 TPM 1.1b and TPM 1.2 PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA

The TPM 1.1b and TPM 1.2 PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_PKCS_TPM_1_1, is a multi-use mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the block formats initially defined in PKCS #1 v1.5, with additional formatting rules defined in TCPA TPM Specification Version 1.1b. Additional formatting rules remained the same in TCG TPM Specification 1.2 The mechanism supports single-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping.

This mechanism does not have a parameter. It differs from the standard PKCS#1 v1.5 RSA encryption mechanism in that the plaintext is wrapped in a TCPA_BOUND_DATA (TPM_BOUND_DATA for TPM 1.2) structure before being submitted to the PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption process. On encryption, the version field of the TCPA_BOUND_DATA (TPM_BOUND_DATA for TPM 1.2) structure must contain 0x01, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00. On decryption, any structure of the form 0x01, 0x01, 0xXX, 0xYY may be accepted.

Table 15, TPM 1.1b and TPM 1.2 PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt¹	RSA public key	£ k-11-5	k
C_Decrypt¹	RSA private key	k	£ k-11-5
C_WrapKey	RSA public key	£ k-11-5	k
C_UnwrapKey	RSA private key	k	£ k-11-5

¹ Single-part operations only.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.22 TPM 1.1b and TPM 1.2 PKCS #1 RSA OAEP

The TPM 1.1b and TPM 1.2 PKCS #1 RSA OAEP mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_TPM_1_1, is a multi-purpose mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the OAEP block format defined in PKCS #1, with additional formatting defined in TCPA TPM Specification Version 1.1b. Additional formatting rules remained the same in TCG TPM Specification 1.2. The mechanism supports single-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping.

This mechanism does not have a parameter. It differs from the standard PKCS#1 OAEP RSA encryption mechanism in that the plaintext is wrapped in a TCPA_BOUND_DATA (TPM_BOUND_DATA for TPM 1.2) structure before being submitted to the encryption process and that all of the values of the parameters that are passed to a standard CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP operation are fixed. On encryption, the version field of the TCPA_BOUND_DATA (TPM_BOUND_DATA for TPM 1.2) structure must contain 0x01, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00. On decryption, any structure of the form 0x01, 0x01, 0xXX, 0xYY may be accepted.

Table 16, TPM 1.1b and TPM 1.2 PKCS #1 RSA OAEP: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt¹	RSA public key	£ k-2-40-5	k
C_Decrypt¹	RSA private key	k	£ k-2-40-5
C_WrapKey	RSA public key	£ k-2-40-5	k
C_UnwrapKey	RSA private key	k	£ k-2-40-5

¹ Single-part operations only.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of RSA modulus sizes, in bits.

2.1.23 RSA AES KEY WRAP

The RSA AES key wrap mechanism, denoted CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP, is a mechanism based on the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the AES key wrap mechanism. It supports single-part key wrapping; and key unwrapping.

It has a parameter, a CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS structure.

The mechanism can wrap and unwrap a target asymmetric key of any length and type using an RSA key.

- A temporary AES key is used for wrapping the target key using CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP mechanism.

- The temporary AES key is wrapped with the wrapping RSA key using CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP mechanism.

For wrapping, the mechanism -

Generates a temporary random AES key of ulAESKeyBits length. This key is not accessible to the user - no handle is returned.
Wraps the AES key with the wrapping RSA key using CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP with parameters of OAEPParams.
Wraps the target key with the temporary AES key using CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP ([AES KEYWRAP] section 6.3).
Zeroizes the temporary AES key
Concatenates two wrapped keys and outputs the concatenated blob. The first is the wrapped AES key, and the second is the wrapped target key.

The recommended format for an asymmetric target key being wrapped is as a PKCS8 PrivateKeyInfo

The use of Attributes in the PrivateKeyInfo structure is OPTIONAL. In case of conflicts between the object attribute template, and Attributes in the PrivateKeyInfo structure, an error should be thrown

For unwrapping, the mechanism -

Splits the input into two parts. The first is the wrapped AES key, and the second is the wrapped target key. The length of the first part is equal to the length of the unwrapping RSA key.
Un-wraps the temporary AES key from the first part with the private RSA key using CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP with parameters of OAEPParams.
Un-wraps the target key from the second part with the temporary AES key using CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP ([AES KEYWRAP] section 6.3).
Zeroizes the temporary AES key.
Returns the handle to the newly unwrapped target key.

Table 17, CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP						ü
1SR = SignRecover, VR = VerifyRecover

2.1.24 RSA AES KEY WRAP mechanism parameters

¨ CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS; CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS_PTR

CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulAESKeyBits;

CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS_PTR pOAEPParams;

} CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

ulAESKeyBits length of the temporary AES key in bits. Can be only 128, 192 or 256.

pOAEPParams pointer to the parameters of the temporary AES key wrapping. See also the description of PKCS #1 RSA OAEP mechanism parameters.

CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS.

2.1.25 FIPS 186-4

When CKM_RSA_PKCS is operated in FIPS mode, the length of the modulus SHALL only be 1024, 2048, or 3072 bits.

2.2 DSA

Table 18, DSA Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_DSA_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN					ü
CKM_DSA_PROBABILISTIC_PARAMETER_GEN					ü
CKM_DSA_SHAWE_TAYLOR_PARAMETER_GEN					ü
CKM_DSA_FIPS_G_GEN					ü
CKM_DSA		ü²
CKM_DSA_SHA1		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA224		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA256		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA384		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA512		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA3_224		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA3_256		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA3_384		ü
CKM_DSA_SHA3_512		ü

2.2.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_DSA” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of DSA key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_DSA_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_DSA

CKM_DSA_SHA1

CKM_DSA_SHA224

CKM_DSA_SHA256

CKM_DSA_SHA384

CKM_DSA_SHA512

CKM_DSA_SHA3_224

CKM_DSA_SHA3_256

CKM_DSA_SHA3_384

CKM_DSA_SHA3_512

CKM_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN

CKM_DSA_PROBABILISTIC_PARAMETER_GEN

CKM_DSA_SHAWE_TAYLOR_PARAMETER_GEN

CKM_DSA_FIPS_G_GEN

¨ CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM

CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM is a structure which provides and returns parameters for the NIST FIPS 186-4 parameter generating algorithms.

CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM_PTR is a pointer to a CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM.

typedef struct CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE hash;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSeed;

CK_ULONG ulSeedLen;

CK_ULONG ulIndex;

} CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

hash Mechanism value for the base hash used in PQG generation, Valid values are CKM_SHA_1, CKM_SHA224, CKM_SHA256, CKM_SHA384, CKM_SHA512.

pSeed Seed value used to generate PQ and G. This value is returned by CKM_DSA_PROBABILISTIC_PARAMETER_GEN, CKM_DSA_SHAWE_TAYLOR_PARAMETER_GEN, and passed into CKM_DSA_FIPS_G_GEN.

ulSeedLen Length of seed value.

ulIndex Index value for generating G. Input for CKM_DSA_FIPS_G_GEN. Ignored by CKM_DSA_PROBABILISTIC_PARAMETER_GEN and CKM_DSA_SHAWE_TAYLOR_PARAMETER_GEN.

2.2.2 DSA public key objects

DSA public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_DSA) hold DSA public keys. The following table defines the DSA public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 19, DSA Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,3	Big integer	Prime p (512 to 3072 bits, in steps of 64 bits)
CKA_SUBPRIME^1,3	Big integer	Subprime q (160, 224 bits, or 256 bits)
CKA_BASE^1,3	Big integer	Base g
CKA_VALUE^1,4	Big integer	Public value y

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_PRIME, CKA_SUBPRIME and CKA_BASE attribute values are collectively the “DSA domain parameters”. See FIPS PUB 186-4 for more information on DSA keys.

The following is a sample template for creating a DSA public key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DSA;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A DSA public key object”;

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE subprime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_SUBPRIME, subprime, sizeof(subprime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.2.3 DSA Key Restrictions

FIPS PUB 186-4 specifies permitted combinations of prime and sub-prime lengths. They are:

Prime: 1024 bits, Subprime: 160
Prime: 2048 bits, Subprime: 224
Prime: 2048 bits, Subprime: 256
Prime: 3072 bits, Subprime: 256

Earlier versions of FIPS 186 permitted smaller prime lengths, and those are included here for backwards compatibility. An implementation that is compliant to FIPS 186-4 does not permit the use of primes of any length less than 1024 bits.

2.2.4 DSA private key objects

DSA private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_DSA) hold DSA private keys. The following table defines the DSA private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 20, DSA Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,4,6	Big integer	Prime p (512 to 1024 bits, in steps of 64 bits)
CKA_SUBPRIME^1,4,6	Big integer	Subprime q (160 bits, 224 bits, or 256 bits)
CKA_BASE^1,4,6	Big integer	Base g
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Big integer	Private value x

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_PRIME, CKA_SUBPRIME and CKA_BASE attribute values are collectively the “DSA domain parameters”. See FIPS PUB 186-4 for more information on DSA keys.

Note that when generating a DSA private key, the DSA domain parameters are not specified in the key’s template. This is because DSA private keys are only generated as part of a DSA key pair, and the DSA domain parameters for the pair are specified in the template for the DSA public key.

The following is a sample template for creating a DSA private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DSA;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A DSA private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE subprime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_SIGN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_SUBPRIME, subprime, sizeof(subprime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.2.5 DSA domain parameter objects

DSA domain parameter objects (object class CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS, key type CKK_DSA) hold DSA domain parameters. The following table defines the DSA domain parameter object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 21, DSA Domain Parameter Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,4	Big integer	Prime p (512 to 1024 bits, in steps of 64 bits)
CKA_SUBPRIME^1,4	Big integer	Subprime q (160 bits, 224 bits, or 256 bits)
CKA_BASE^1,4	Big integer	Base g
CKA_PRIME_BITS^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length of the prime value.

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_PRIME, CKA_SUBPRIME and CKA_BASE attribute values are collectively the “DSA domain parameters”. See FIPS PUB 186-4 for more information on DSA domain parameters.

To ensure backwards compatibility, if CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS is not specified for a call to C_GenerateKey, it takes on a default based on the value of CKA_PRIME_BITS as follows:

If CKA_PRIME_BITS is less than or equal to 1024 then CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS shall be 160 bits
If CKA_PRIME_BITS equals 2048 then CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS shall be 224 bits
If CKA_PRIME_BITS equals 3072 then CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS shall be 256 bits

The following is a sample template for creating a DSA domain parameter object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DSA;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A DSA domain parameter object”;

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE subprime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_SUBPRIME, subprime, sizeof(subprime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

};

2.2.6 DSA key pair generation

The DSA key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-2.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates DSA public/private key pairs with a particular prime, subprime and base, as specified in the CKA_PRIME, CKA_SUBPRIME, and CKA_BASE attributes of the template for the public key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new public key and the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_PRIME, CKA_SUBPRIME, CKA_BASE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new private key. Other attributes supported by the DSA public and private key types (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the keys support) may also be specified in the templates for the keys, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.7 DSA domain parameter generation

The DSA domain parameter generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN, is a domain parameter generation mechanism based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-2.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates DSA domain parameters with a particular prime length in bits, as specified in the CKA_PRIME_BITS attribute of the template.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_PRIME, CKA_SUBPRIME, CKA_BASE and CKA_PRIME_BITS attributes to the new object. Other attributes supported by the DSA domain parameter types may also be specified in the template, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.8 DSA probabilistic domain parameter generation

The DSA probabilistic domain parameter generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_PROBABILISTIC_PARAMETER_GEN, is a domain parameter generation mechanism based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4, section Appendix A.1.1 Generation and Validation of Probable Primes..

This mechanism takes a CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM which supplies the base hash and returns the seed (pSeed) and the length (ulSeedLen).

The mechanism generates DSA the prime and subprime domain parameters with a particular prime length in bits, as specified in the CKA_PRIME_BITS attribute of the template and the subprime length as specified in the CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS attribute of the template.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_PRIME, CKA_SUBPRIME, CKA_PRIME_BITS, and CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS attributes to the new object. CKA_BASE is not set by this call. Other attributes supported by the DSA domain parameter types may also be specified in the template, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.9 DSA Shawe-Taylor domain parameter generation

The DSA Shawe-Taylor domain parameter generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHAWE_TAYLOR_PARAMETER_GEN, is a domain parameter generation mechanism based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4, section Appendix A.1.2 Construction and Validation of Provable Primes p and q.

This mechanism takes a CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM which supplies the base hash and returns the seed (pSeed) and the length (ulSeedLen).

The mechanism generates DSA the prime and subprime domain parameters with a particular prime length in bits, as specified in the CKA_PRIME_BITS attribute of the template and the subprime length as specified in the CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS attribute of the template.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.10 DSA base domain parameter generation

The DSA base domain parameter generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_FIPS_G_GEN, is a base parameter generation mechanism based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4, section Appendix A.2 Generation of Generator G.

This mechanism takes a CK_DSA_PARAMETER_GEN_PARAM which supplies the base hash the seed (pSeed) and the length (ulSeedLen) and the index value.

The mechanism generates the DSA base with the domain parameter specified in the CKA_PRIME and CKA_SUBPRIME attributes of the template.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_BASE attributes to the new object. Other attributes supported by the DSA domain parameter types may also be specified in the template, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.11 DSA without hashing

The DSA without hashing mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA, is a mechanism for single-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-2. (This mechanism corresponds only to the part of DSA that processes the 20-byte hash value; it does not compute the hash value.)

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a 40-byte string, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 22, DSA: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign¹	DSA private key	20, 28, 32, 48, or 64 bits	2*length of subprime
C_Verify¹	DSA public key	(20, 28, 32, 48, or 64 bits), (2*length of subprime)²	N/A

¹ Single-part operations only.

2 Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.12 DSA with SHA-1

The DSA with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA1, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-2. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA-1.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a 40-byte string, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 23, DSA with SHA-1: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.13 FIPS 186-4

When CKM_DSA is operated in FIPS mode, only the following bit lengths of p and q, represented by L and N, SHALL be used:

L = 1024, N = 160

L = 2048, N = 224

L = 2048, N = 256

L = 3072, N = 256

2.2.14 DSA with SHA-224

The DSA with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA224, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA-224.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 24, DSA with SHA-244: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.15 DSA with SHA-256

The DSA with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA256, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA-256.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 25, DSA with SHA-256: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

2.2.16 DSA with SHA-384

The DSA with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA384, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA-384.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 26, DSA with SHA-384: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

2.2.17 DSA with SHA-512

The DSA with SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA512, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA-512.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 27, DSA with SHA-512: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

2.2.18 DSA with SHA3-224

The DSA with SHA3-224 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA3_224, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA3-224.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 28, DSA with SHA3-224: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.

2.2.19 DSA with SHA3-256

The DSA with SHA3-256 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA3_256, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA3-256.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 29, DSA with SHA3-256: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

2.2.20 DSA with SHA3-384

The DSA with SHA3-384 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA3_384, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SHA3-384.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 30, DSA with SHA3-384: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

2.2.21 DSA with SHA3-512

The DSA with SHA3-512 mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA_SHA3_512, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-4. This mechanism computes the entire DSA specification, including the hashing with SH3A-512.

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a string of length 2*subprime, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 31, DSA with SHA3-512: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	DSA private key	any	2*subprime length
C_Verify	DSA public key	any, 2*subprime length²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

2.3 Elliptic Curve

The Elliptic Curve (EC) cryptosystem (also related to ECDSA) in this document was originally based on the one described in the ANSI X9.62 and X9.63 standards developed by the ANSI X9F1 working group.

The EC cryptosystem developed by the ANSI X9F1 working group was created at a time when EC curves were always represented in their Weierstrass form. Since that time, new curves represented in Edwards form (RFC 8032) and Montgomery form (RFC 7748) have become more common. To support these new curves, the EC cryptosystem in this document has been extended from the original. Additional key generation mechanisms have been added as well as an additional signature generation mechanism.

Table 32, Elliptic Curve Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_EC_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_EC_KEY_PAIR_GEN_W_EXTRA_BITS					ü
CKM_EC_EDWARDS_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_EC_MONTGOMERY_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_ECDSA		ü²
CKM_ECDSA_SHA1		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA224		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA256		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA384		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA512		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_224		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_256		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_384		ü
CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_512		ü
CKM_EDDSA		ü
CKM_XEDDSA		ü
CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE							ü
CKM_ECDH1_COFACTOR_DERIVE							ü
CKM_ECMQV_DERIVE							ü
CKM_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP						ü

Table 33, Mechanism Information Flags

CKF_EC_F_P	0x00100000UL	True if the mechanism can be used with EC domain parameters over F_p
CKF_EC_F_2M	0x00200000UL	True if the mechanism can be used with EC domain parameters over F_2m
CKF_EC_ECPARAMETERS	0x00400000UL	True if the mechanism can be used with EC domain parameters of the choice ecParameters
CKF_EC_OID	0x00800000UL	True if the mechanism can be used with EC domain parameters of the choice oId
CKF_EC_UNCOMPRESS	0x01000000UL	True if the mechanism can be used with elliptic curve point uncompressed
CKF_EC_COMPRESS	0x02000000UL	True if the mechanism can be used with elliptic curve point compressed
CKF_EC_CURVENAME	0x04000000UL	True of the mechanism can be used with EC domain parameters of the choice curveName

Note: CKF_EC_NAMEDCURVE is deprecated with PKCS#11 3.00. It is replaced by CKF_EC_OID.

In these standards, there are two different varieties of EC defined:

1. EC using a field with an odd prime number of elements (i.e. the finite field F_p).

2. EC using a field of characteristic two (i.e. the finite field F_2m).

An EC key in Cryptoki contains information about which variety of EC it is suited for. It is preferable that a Cryptoki library, which can perform EC mechanisms, be capable of performing operations with the two varieties of EC, however this is not required. The CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure CKF_EC_F_P flag identifies a Cryptoki library supporting EC keys over F_p whereas the CKF_EC_F_2M flag identifies a Cryptoki library supporting EC keys over F_2m. A Cryptoki library that can perform EC mechanisms must set either or both of these flags for each EC mechanism.

In these specifications there are also four representation methods to define the domain parameters for an EC key. Only the ecParameters, the oId and the curveName choices are supported in Cryptoki. The CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure CKF_EC_ECPARAMETERS flag identifies a Cryptoki library supporting the ecParameters choice whereas the CKF_EC_OID flag identifies a Cryptoki library supporting the oId choice, and the CKF_EC_CURVENAME flag identifies a Cryptoki library supporting the curveName choice. A Cryptoki library that can perform EC mechanisms must set the appropriate flag(s) for each EC mechanism.

In these specifications, an EC public key (i.e. EC point Q) or the base point G when the ecParameters choice is used can be represented as an octet string of the uncompressed form or the compressed form. The CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure CKF_EC_UNCOMPRESS flag identifies a Cryptoki library supporting the uncompressed form whereas the CKF_EC_COMPRESS flag identifies a Cryptoki library supporting the compressed form. A Cryptoki library that can perform EC mechanisms must set either or both of these flags for each EC mechanism.

Note that an implementation of a Cryptoki library supporting EC with only one variety, one representation of domain parameters or one form may encounter difficulties achieving interoperability with other implementations.

If an attempt to create, generate, derive or unwrap an EC key of an unsupported curve is made, the attempt should fail with the error code CKR_CURVE_NOT_SUPPORTED. If an attempt to create, generate, derive, or unwrap an EC key with invalid or of an unsupported representation of domain parameters is made, that attempt should fail with the error code CKR_DOMAIN_PARAMS_INVALID. If an attempt to create, generate, derive, or unwrap an EC key of an unsupported form is made, that attempt should fail with the error code CKR_TEMPLATE_INCONSISTENT.

2.3.1 EC Signatures

For the purposes of these mechanisms, an ECDSA signature is an octet string of even length which is at most two times nLen octets, where nLen is the length in octets of the base point order n. The signature octets correspond to the concatenation of the ECDSA values r and s, both represented as an octet string of equal length of at most nLen with the most significant byte first. If r and s have different octet length, the shorter of both must be padded with leading zero octets such that both have the same octet length. Loosely spoken, the first half of the signature is r and the second half is s. For signatures created by a token, the resulting signature is always of length 2nLen. For signatures passed to a token for verification, the signature may have a shorter length but must be composed as specified before.

If the length of the hash value is larger than the bit length of n, only the leftmost bits of the hash up to the length of n will be used. Any truncation is done by the token.

Note: For applications, it is recommended to encode the signature as an octet string of length two times nLen if possible. This ensures that the application works with PKCS#11 modules which have been implemented based on an older version of this document. Older versions required all signatures to have length two times nLen. It may be impossible to encode the signature with the maximum length of two times nLen if the application just gets the integer values of r and s (i.e. without leading zeros), but does not know the base point order n, because r and s can have any value between zero and the base point order n.

An EdDSA signature is an octet string of even length which is two times nLen octets, where nLen is calculated as EdDSA parameter b divided by 8. The signature octets correspond to the concatenation of the EdDSA values R and S as defined in [RFC 8032], both represented as an octet string of equal length of nLen bytes in little endian order.

2.3.2 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_EC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Note: CKK_ECDSA is deprecated. It is replaced by CKK_EC.

Mechanisms:

CKM_EC_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_EC_EDWARDS_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_EC_MONTGOMERY_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_ECDSA

CKM_ECDSA_SHA1

CKM_ECDSA_SHA224

CKM_ECDSA_SHA256

CKM_ECDSA_SHA384

CKM_ECDSA_SHA512

CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_224

CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_256

CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_384

CKM_ECDSA_SHA3_512

CKM_EDDSA

CKM_XEDDSA

CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE

CKM_ECDH1_COFACTOR_DERIVE

CKM_ECMQV_DERIVE

CKM_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP

CKD_NULL

CKD_SHA1_KDF

CKD_SHA224_KDF

CKD_SHA256_KDF

CKD_SHA384_KDF

CKD_SHA512_KDF

CKD_SHA3_224_KDF

CKD_SHA3_256_KDF

CKD_SHA3_384_KDF

CKD_SHA3_512_KDF

CKD_SHA1_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA224_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA256_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA384_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA512_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_224_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_256_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_384_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_512_KDF_SP800

CKD_BLAKE2B_160_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_256_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_384_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_512_KDF

2.3.3 ECDSA public key objects

EC (also related to ECDSA) public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_EC) hold EC public keys. The following table defines the EC public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 34, Elliptic Curve Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_EC_PARAMS^1,3	Byte array	DER-encoding of an ANSI X9.62 Parameters value
CKA_EC_POINT^1,4	Byte array	DER-encoding of ANSI X9.62 ECPoint value Q

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

Note: CKA_ECDSA_PARAMS is deprecated. It is replaced by CKA_EC_PARAMS.

The CKA_EC_PARAMS attribute value is known as the “EC domain parameters” and is defined in ANSI X9.62 as a choice of three parameter representation methods with the following syntax:

Parameters ::= CHOICE {

ecParameters ECParameters,

oId CURVES.&id({CurveNames}),

implicitlyCA NULL,

curveName PrintableString

}

The following is a sample template for creating an EC (ECDSA) public key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_EC;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An EC public key object”;

CK_BYTE ecParams[] = {...};

CK_BYTE ecPoint[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_EC_PARAMS, ecParams, sizeof(ecParams)},

{CKA_EC_POINT, ecPoint, sizeof(ecPoint)}

};

2.3.4 Elliptic curve private key objects

EC (also related to ECDSA) private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_EC) hold EC private keys. See Section 2.3 for more information about EC. The following table defines the EC private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 35, Elliptic Curve Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_EC_PARAMS^1,4,6	Byte array	DER-encoding of an ANSI X9.62 Parameters value
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Big integer	ANSI X9.62 private value d

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_EC_PARAMS attribute value is known as the “EC domain parameters” and is defined in ANSI X9.62 as a choice of three parameter representation methods with the following syntax:

Parameters ::= CHOICE {

ecParameters ECParameters,

oId CURVES.&id({CurveNames}),

implicitlyCA NULL,

curveName PrintableString

}

This allows detailed specification of all required values using choice ecParameters, the use of oId as an object identifier substitute for a particular set of elliptic curve domain parameters, or implicitlyCA to indicate that the domain parameters are explicitly defined elsewhere, or curveName to specify a curve name as e.g. define in [ANSI X9.62], [BRAINPOOL], [SEC 2], [LEGIFRANCE]. The use of oId or curveName is recommended over the choice ecParameters. The choice implicitlyCA must not be used in Cryptoki.Note that when generating an EC private key, the EC domain parameters are not specified in the key’s template. This is because EC private keys are only generated as part of an EC key pair, and the EC domain parameters for the pair are specified in the template for the EC public key.

The following is a sample template for creating an EC (ECDSA) private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_EC;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An EC private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE ecParams[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_DERIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_EC_PARAMS, ecParams, sizeof(ecParams)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.3.5 Edwards Elliptic curve public key objects

Edwards EC public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_EC_EDWARDS) hold Edwards EC public keys. The following table defines the Edwards EC public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 36, Edwards Elliptic Curve Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_EC_PARAMS^1,3	Byte array	DER-encoding of a Parameters value as defined above
CKA_EC_POINT^1,4	Byte array	DER-encoding of the b-bit public key value in little endian order as defined in RFC 8032

^{- Refer to [PKCS
#11-Base] table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_EC_PARAMS attribute value is known as the “EC domain parameters” and is defined in ANSI X9.62 as a choice of three parameter representation methods. A 4^th choice is added to support Edwards and Montgomery Elliptic curves. The CKA_EC_PARAMS attribute has the following syntax:

Parameters ::= CHOICE {

ecParameters ECParameters,

oId CURVES.&id({CurveNames}),

implicitlyCA NULL,

curveName PrintableString

}

Edwards EC public keys only support the use of the curveName selection to specify a curve name as defined in [RFC 8032] and the use of the oID selection to specify a curve through an EdDSA algorithm as defined in [RFC 8410]. Note that keys defined by RFC 8032 and RFC 8410 are incompatible.

The following is a sample template for creating an Edwards EC public key object with Edwards25519 being specified as curveName:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_EC;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An Edwards EC public key object”;

CK_BYTE ecParams[] = {0x13, 0x0c, 0x65, 0x64, 0x77, 0x61, 0x72, 0x64, 0x73, 0x32, 0x35, 0x35, 0x31, 0x39};

CK_BYTE ecPoint[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_EC_PARAMS, ecParams, sizeof(ecParams)},

{CKA_EC_POINT, ecPoint, sizeof(ecPoint)}

};

2.3.6 Edwards Elliptic curve private key objects

Edwards EC private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_EC_EDWARDS) hold Edwards EC private keys. See Section 2.3 for more information about EC. The following table defines the Edwards EC private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 37, Edwards Elliptic Curve Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_EC_PARAMS^1,4,6	Byte array	DER-encoding of a Parameters value as defined above
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Big integer	b-bit private key value in little endian order as defined in RFC 8032

^{- Refer to [PKCS
#11-Base] table 11 for footnotes}

Parameters ::= CHOICE {

ecParameters ECParameters,

oId CURVES.&id({CurveNames}),

implicitlyCA NULL,

curveName PrintableString

}

Edwards EC private keys only support the use of the curveName selection to specify a curve name as defined in [RFC 8032] and the use of the oID selection to specify a curve through an EdDSA algorithm as defined in [RFC 8410]. Note that keys defined by RFC 8032 and RFC 8410 are incompatible.

Note that when generating an Edwards EC private key, the EC domain parameters are not specified in the key’s template. This is because Edwards EC private keys are only generated as part of an Edwards EC key pair, and the EC domain parameters for the pair are specified in the template for the Edwards EC public key.

The following is a sample template for creating an Edwards EC private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_EC;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An Edwards EC private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE ecParams[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_DERIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.3.7 Montgomery Elliptic curve public key objects

Montgomery EC public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY) hold Montgomery EC public keys. The following table defines the Montgomery EC public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 38, Montgomery Elliptic Curve Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_EC_PARAMS^1,3	Byte array	DER-encoding of a Parameters value as defined above
CKA_EC_POINT^1,4	Byte array	DER-encoding of the public key value in little endian order as defined in RFC 7748

^{- Refer to [PKCS
#11-Base] table 11 for footnotes}

Parameters ::= CHOICE {

ecParameters ECParameters,

oId CURVES.&id({CurveNames}),

implicitlyCA NULL,

curveName PrintableString

}

Montgomery EC public keys only support the use of the curveName selection to specify a curve name as defined in [RFC7748] and the use of the oID selection to specify a curve through an ECDH algorithm as defined in [RFC 8410]. Note that keys defined by RFC 7748 and RFC 8410 are incompatible.

The following is a sample template for creating a Montgomery EC public key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_EC;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Montgomery EC public key object”;

CK_BYTE ecParams[] = {...};

CK_BYTE ecPoint[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_EC_PARAMS, ecParams, sizeof(ecParams)},

{CKA_EC_POINT, ecPoint, sizeof(ecPoint)}

};

2.3.8 Montgomery Elliptic curve private key objects

Montgomery EC private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY) hold Montgomery EC private keys. See Section 2.3 for more information about EC. The following table defines the Montgomery EC private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 39, Montgomery Elliptic Curve Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_EC_PARAMS^1,4,6	Byte array	DER-encoding of a Parameters value as defined above
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Big integer	Private key value in little endian order as defined in RFC 7748

^{- Refer to [PKCS
#11-Base] table 11 for footnotes}

Parameters ::= CHOICE {

ecParameters ECParameters,

oId CURVES.&id({CurveNames}),

implicitlyCA NULL,

curveName PrintableString

}

Edwards EC private keys only support the use of the curveName selection to specify a curve name as defined in [RFC7748] and the use of the oID selection to specify a curve through an ECDH algorithm as defined in [RFC 8410]. Note that keys defined by RFC 7748 and RFC 8410 are incompatible.

Note that when generating a Montgomery EC private key, the EC domain parameters are not specified in the key’s template. This is because Montgomery EC private keys are only generated as part of a Montgomery EC key pair, and the EC domain parameters for the pair are specified in the template for the Montgomery EC public key.

The following is a sample template for creating a Montgomery EC private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_EC;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Montgomery EC private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE ecParams[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_DERIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.3.9 Elliptic curve key pair generation

The EC (also related to ECDSA) key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_EC_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism that uses the method defined by the ANSI X9.62 and X9.63 standards.

The EC (also related to ECDSA) key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_EC_KEY_PAIR_GEN_W_EXTRA_BITS, is a key pair generation mechanism that uses the method defined by FIPS 186-4 Appendix B.4.1.

These mechanisms do not have a parameter.

These mechanisms generate EC public/private key pairs with particular EC domain parameters, as specified in the CKA_EC_PARAMS attribute of the template for the public key. Note that this version of Cryptoki does not include a mechanism for generating these EC domain parameters.

These mechanism contribute the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_EC_POINT attributes to the new public key and the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_EC_PARAMS and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new private key. Other attributes supported by the EC public and private key types (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the keys support) may also be specified in the templates for the keys, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For example, if a Cryptoki library supports only ECDSA using a field of characteristic 2 which has between 2²⁰⁰ and 2³⁰⁰ elements, then ulMinKeySize = 201 and ulMaxKeySize = 301 (when written in binary notation, the number 2²⁰⁰ consists of a 1 bit followed by 200 0 bits. It is therefore a 201-bit number. Similarly, 2³⁰⁰ is a 301-bit number).

2.3.10 Edwards Elliptic curve key pair generation

The Edwards EC key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_EC_EDWARDS_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism for EC keys over curves represented in Edwards form.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

The mechanism can only generate EC public/private key pairs over the curves edwards25519 and edwards448 as defined in RFC 8032 or the curves id-Ed25519 and id-Ed448 as defined in RFC 8410. These curves can only be specified in the CKA_EC_PARAMS attribute of the template for the public key using the curveName or the oID methods. Attempts to generate keys over these curves using any other EC key pair generation mechanism will fail with CKR_CURVE_NOT_SUPPORTED.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_EC_POINT attributes to the new public key and the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_EC_PARAMS and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new private key. Other attributes supported by the Edwards EC public and private key types (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the keys support) may also be specified in the templates for the keys, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For this mechanism, the only allowed values are 255 and 448 as RFC 8032 only defines curves of these two sizes. A Cryptoki implementation may support one or both of these curves and should set the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields accordingly.

2.3.11 Montgomery Elliptic curve key pair generation

The Montgomery EC key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_EC_MONTGOMERY_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism for EC keys over curves represented in Montgomery form.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

The mechanism can only generate Montgomery EC public/private key pairs over the curves curve25519 and curve448 as defined in RFC 7748 or the curves id-X25519 and id-X448 as defined in RFC 8410. These curves can only be specified in the CKA_EC_PARAMS attribute of the template for the public key using the curveName or oId methods. Attempts to generate keys over these curves using any other EC key pair generation mechanism will fail with CKR_CURVE_NOT_SUPPORTED.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_EC_POINT attributes to the new public key and the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_EC_PARAMS and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new private key. Other attributes supported by the EC public and private key types (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the keys support) may also be specified in the templates for the keys, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For this mechanism, the only allowed values are 255 and 448 as RFC 7748 only defines curves of these two sizes. A Cryptoki implementation may support one or both of these curves and should set the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields accordingly.

2.3.12 ECDSA without hashing

Refer section 2.3.1 for signature encoding.

The ECDSA without hashing mechanism, denoted CKM_ECDSA, is a mechanism for single-part signatures and verification for ECDSA. (This mechanism corresponds only to the part of ECDSA that processes the hash value, which should not be longer than 1024 bits; it does not compute the hash value.)

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 40, ECDSA without hashing: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign¹	ECDSA private key	any³	2nLen
C_Verify¹	ECDSA public key	any³, £2nLen ²	N/A

¹ Single-part operations only.

2 Data length, signature length.

3 Input the entire raw digest. Internally, this will be truncated to the appropriate number of bits.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For example, if a Cryptoki library supports only ECDSA using a field of characteristic 2 which has between 2²⁰⁰ and 2³⁰⁰ elements (inclusive), then ulMinKeySize = 201 and ulMaxKeySize = 301 (when written in binary notation, the number 2²⁰⁰ consists of a 1 bit followed by 200 0 bits. It is therefore a 201-bit number. Similarly, 2³⁰⁰ is a 301-bit number).

2.3.13 ECDSA with hashing

Refer to section 2.3.1 for signature encoding.

The ECDSA with SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512 mechanism, denoted CKM_ECDSA_[SHA1|SHA224|SHA384|SHA512|SHA3_224|SHA3_256|SHA3_384|SHA3_512] respectively, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification for ECDSA. This mechanism computes the entire ECDSA specification, including the hashing with SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512 respectively.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 41, ECDSA with hashing: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	ECDSA private key	any	2nLen
C_Verify	ECDSA public key	any, £2nLen²	N/A

² Data length, signature length.

2.3.14 EdDSA

The EdDSA mechanism, denoted CKM_EDDSA, is a mechanism for single-part and multipart signatures and verification for EdDSA. This mechanism implements the five EdDSA signature schemes defined in RFC 8032 and RFC 8410.

For curves according to RFC 8032, this mechanism has an optional parameter, a CK_EDDSA_PARAMS structure. The absence or presence of the parameter as well as its content is used to identify which signature scheme is to be used. The following table enumerates the five signature schemes defined in RFC 8032 and all supported permutations of the mechanism parameter and its content.

Table 42, Mapping to RFC 8032 Signature Schemes

Signature Scheme	Mechanism Param	phFlag	Context Data
Ed25519	Not Required	N/A	N/A
Ed25519ctx	Required	False	Optional
Ed25519ph	Required	True	Optional
Ed448	Required	False	Optional
Ed448ph	Required	True	Optional

For curves according to RFC 8410, the mechanism is implicitly given by the curve, which is EdDSA in pure mode.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 43, EdDSA: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	CKK_EC_EDWARDS private key	any	2bLen
C_Verify	CKK_EC_EDWARDS public key	any, £2bLen ²	N/A

2 Data length, signature length.

Note that for EdDSA in pure mode, Ed25519 and Ed448 the data must be processed twice. Therefore, a token might need to cache all the data, especially when used with C_SignUpdate/C_VerifyUpdate. If tokens are unable to do so they can return CKR_TOKEN_RESOURCE_EXCEEDED.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For this mechanism, the only allowed values are 255 and 448 as RFC 8032and RFC 8410 only define curves of these two sizes. A Cryptoki implementation may support one or both of these curves and should set the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields accordingly.

2.3.15 XEdDSA

The XEdDSA mechanism, denoted CKM_XEDDSA, is a mechanism for single-part signatures and verification for XEdDSA. This mechanism implements the XEdDSA signature scheme defined in [XEDDSA]. CKM_XEDDSA operates on CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY type EC keys, which allows these keys to be used both for signing/verification and for Diffie-Hellman style key-exchanges. This double use is necessary for the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman where the long-term identity key is used to sign short-term keys and also contributes to the DH key-exchange.

This mechanism has a parameter, a CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS structure.

Table 44, XEdDSA: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign¹	CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY private key	any³	2b
C_Verify¹	CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY public key	any³, £2b ²	N/A

2 Data length, signature length.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For this mechanism, the only allowed values are 255 and 448 as [XEDDSA] only defines curves of these two sizes. A Cryptoki implementation may support one or both of these curves and should set the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields accordingly.

2.3.16 EC mechanism parameters

¨ CK_EDDSA_PARAMS, CK_EDDSA_PARAMS_PTR

CK_EDDSA_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters for the CKM_EDDSA signature mechanism. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_EDDSA_PARAMS {

CK_BBOOL phFlag;

CK_ULONG ulContextDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pContextData;

} CK_EDDSA_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

phFlag a Boolean value which indicates if Prehashed variant of EdDSA should used

ulContextDataLen the length in bytes of the context data where 0 <= ulContextDataLen <= 255.

pContextData context data shared between the signer and verifier

CK_EDDSA_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_EDDSA_PARAMS.

¨ CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS, CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS_PTR

CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters for the CKM_XEDDSA signature mechanism. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS {

CK_XEDDSA_HASH_TYPE hash;

} CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

hash a Hash mechanism to be used by the mechanism.

CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_XEDDSA_PARAMS.

¨ CK_XEDDSA_HASH_TYPE, CK_XEDDSA_HASH_TYPE_PTR

CK_XEDDSA_HASH_TYPE is used to indicate the hash function used in XEDDSA. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_XEDDSA_HASH_TYPE;

The following table lists the defined functions.

Table 45, EC: Key Derivation Functions

Source Identifier

CKM_BLAKE2B_256

CKM_BLAKE2B_512

CKM_SHA3_256

CKM_SHA3_512

CKM_SHA256

CKM_SHA512

CK_XEDDSA_HASH_TYPE_PTR is a pointer to a CK_XEDDSA_HASH_TYPE.

¨ CK_EC_KDF_TYPE, CK_EC_KDF_TYPE_PTR

CK_EC_KDF_TYPE is used to indicate the Key Derivation Function (KDF) applied to derive keying data from a shared secret. The key derivation function will be used by the EC key agreement schemes. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_EC_KDF_TYPE;

The following table lists the defined functions.

Table 46, EC: Key Derivation Functions

Source Identifier

CKD_NULL

CKD_SHA1_KDF

CKD_SHA224_KDF

CKD_SHA256_KDF

CKD_SHA384_KDF

CKD_SHA512_KDF

CKD_SHA3_224_KDF

CKD_SHA3_256_KDF

CKD_SHA3_384_KDF

CKD_SHA3_512_KDF

CKD_SHA1_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA224_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA256_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA384_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA512_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_224_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_256_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_384_KDF_SP800

CKD_SHA3_512_KDF_SP800

CKD_BLAKE2B_160_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_256_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_384_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_512_KDF

The key derivation function CKD_NULL produces a raw shared secret value without applying any key derivation function.

The key derivation functions CKD_[SHA1|SHA224|SHA384|SHA512|SHA3_224|SHA3_256|SHA3_384|SHA3_512]_KDF, which are based on SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512 respectively, derive keying data from the shared secret value as defined in [ANSI X9.63].

The key derivation functions CKD_[SHA1|SHA224|SHA384|SHA512|SHA3_224|SHA3_256|SHA3_384|SHA3_512]_KDF_SP800, which are based on SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512 respectively, derive keying data from the shared secret value as defined in [FIPS SP800-56A] section 5.8.1.1.

The key derivation functions CKD_BLAKE2B_[160|256|384|512]_KDF, which are based on the Blake2b family of hashes, derive keying data from the shared secret value as defined in [FIPS SP800-56A] section 5.8.1.1. CK_EC_KDF_TYPE_PTR is a pointer to a CK_EC_KDF_TYPE.

¨ CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS, CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters for the CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE and CKM_ECDH1_COFACTOR_DERIVE key derivation mechanisms, where each party contributes one key pair. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_EC_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_ULONG ulSharedDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSharedData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData;

} CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

kdf key derivation function used on the shared secret value

ulSharedDataLen the length in bytes of the shared info

pSharedData some data shared between the two parties

ulPublicDataLen the length in bytes of the other party’s EC public key

pPublicData^{^[1]} pointer to other party’s EC public key value. A token MUST be able to accept this value encoded as a raw octet string (as per section A.5.2 of [ANSI X9.62]). A token MAY, in addition, support accepting this value as a DER-encoded ECPoint (as per section E.6 of [ANSI X9.62]) i.e. the same as a CKA_EC_POINT encoding. The calling application is responsible for converting the offered public key to the compressed or uncompressed forms of these encodings if the token does not support the offered form.

With the key derivation function CKD_NULL, pSharedData must be NULL and ulSharedDataLen must be zero. With the key derivation functions CKD_[SHA1|SHA224|SHA384|SHA512|SHA3_224|SHA3_256|SHA3_384|SHA3_512]_KDF, CKD_[SHA1|SHA224|SHA384|SHA512|SHA3_224|SHA3_256|SHA3_384|SHA3_512]_KDF_SP800, an optional pSharedData may be supplied, which consists of some data shared by the two parties intending to share the shared secret. Otherwise, pSharedData must be NULL and ulSharedDataLen must be zero.

CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS.

¨ CK_ECDH2_DERIVE_PARAMS, CK_ECDH2_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_ECDH2_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_ECMQV_DERIVE key derivation mechanism, where each party contributes two key pairs. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_ECDH2_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_EC_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_ULONG ulSharedDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSharedData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData;

CK_ULONG ulPrivateDataLen;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hPrivateData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen2;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData2;

} CK_ECDH2_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

kdf key derivation function used on the shared secret value

ulSharedDataLen the length in bytes of the shared info

pSharedData some data shared between the two parties

ulPublicDataLen the length in bytes of the other party’s first EC public key

pPublicData pointer to other party’s first EC public key value. Encoding rules are as per pPublicData of CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS

ulPrivateDataLen the length in bytes of the second EC private key

hPrivateData key handle for second EC private key value

ulPublicDataLen2 the length in bytes of the other party’s second EC public key

pPublicData2 pointer to other party’s second EC public key value. Encoding rules are as per pPublicData of CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS

With the key derivation function CKD_NULL, pSharedData must be NULL and ulSharedDataLen must be zero. With the key derivation function CKD_SHA1_KDF, an optional pSharedData may be supplied, which consists of some data shared by the two parties intending to share the shared secret. Otherwise, pSharedData must be NULL and ulSharedDataLen must be zero.

CK_ECDH2_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_ECDH2_DERIVE_PARAMS.

¨ CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS, CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_ECMQV_DERIVE key derivation mechanism, where each party contributes two key pairs. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_EC_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_ULONG ulSharedDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSharedData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData;

CK_ULONG ulPrivateDataLen;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hPrivateData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen2;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData2;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE publicKey;

} CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

kdf key derivation function used on the shared secret value

ulSharedDataLen the length in bytes of the shared info

pSharedData some data shared between the two parties

ulPublicDataLen the length in bytes of the other party’s first EC public key

pPublicData pointer to other party’s first EC public key value. Encoding rules are as per pPublicData of CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS

ulPrivateDataLen the length in bytes of the second EC private key

hPrivateData key handle for second EC private key value

ulPublicDataLen2 the length in bytes of the other party’s second EC public key

pPublicData2 pointer to other party’s second EC public key value. Encoding rules are as per pPublicData of CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS

publicKey Handle to the first party’s ephemeral public key

CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS.

2.3.17 Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key derivation

The elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation based on the Diffie-Hellman version of the elliptic curve key agreement scheme, as defined in ANSI X9.63, where each party contributes one key pair all using the same EC domain parameters.

It has a parameter, a CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS structure.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· The CKA_SENSITIVE and CKA_EXTRACTABLE attributes in the template for the new key can both be specified to be either CK_TRUE or CK_FALSE. If omitted, these attributes each take on some default value.

· If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key will as well. If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to the same value as its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute.

· Similarly, if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key will, too. If the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to the opposite value from its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For example, if a Cryptoki library supports only EC using a field of characteristic 2 which has between 2²⁰⁰ and 2³⁰⁰ elements, then ulMinKeySize = 201 and ulMaxKeySize = 301 (when written in binary notation, the number 2²⁰⁰ consists of a 1 bit followed by 200 0 bits. It is therefore a 201-bit number. Similarly, 2³⁰⁰ is a 301-bit number).

Constraints on key types are summarized in the following table:

Table 47: ECDH: Allowed Key Types

Function	Key type
C_Derive	CKK_EC or CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY

2.3.18 Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman with cofactor key derivation

The elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) with cofactor key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_ECDH1_COFACTOR_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation based on the cofactor Diffie-Hellman version of the elliptic curve key agreement scheme, as defined in ANSI X9.63, where each party contributes one key pair all using the same EC domain parameters. Cofactor multiplication is computationally efficient and helps to prevent security problems like small group attacks.

It has a parameter, a CK_ECDH1_DERIVE_PARAMS structure.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For example, if a Cryptoki library supports only EC using a field of characteristic 2 which has between 2²⁰⁰ and 2³⁰⁰ elements, then ulMinKeySize = 201 and ulMaxKeySize = 301 (when written in binary notation, the number 2²⁰⁰ consists of a 1 bit followed by 200 0 bits. It is therefore a 201-bit number. Similarly, 2³⁰⁰ is a 301-bit number).

Constraints on key types are summarized in the following table:

Table 48: ECDH with cofactor: Allowed Key Types

Function	Key type
C_Derive	CKK_EC

2.3.19 Elliptic curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone key derivation

The elliptic curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (ECMQV) key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_ECMQV_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation based the MQV version of the elliptic curve key agreement scheme, as defined in ANSI X9.63, where each party contributes two key pairs all using the same EC domain parameters.

It has a parameter, a CK_ECMQV_DERIVE_PARAMS structure.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported number of bits in the field sizes, respectively. For example, if a Cryptoki library supports only EC using a field of characteristic 2 which has between 2²⁰⁰ and 2³⁰⁰ elements, then ulMinKeySize = 201 and ulMaxKeySize = 301 (when written in binary notation, the number 2²⁰⁰ consists of a 1 bit followed by 200 0 bits. It is therefore a 201-bit number. Similarly, 2³⁰⁰ is a 301-bit number).

Constraints on key types are summarized in the following table:

Table 49: ECDH MQV: Allowed Key Types

Function	Key type
C_Derive	CKK_EC

2.3.20 ECDH AES KEY WRAP

The ECDH AES KEY WRAP mechanism, denoted CKM_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP, is a mechanism based on elliptic curve public-key crypto-system and the AES key wrap mechanism. It supports single-part key wrapping; and key unwrapping.

It has a parameter, a CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS structure.

The mechanism can wrap and unwrap an asymmetric target key of any length and type using an EC key.

- A temporary AES key is derived from a temporary EC key and the wrapping EC key using the CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE mechanism.

- The derived AES key is used for wrapping the target key using the CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP mechanism.

For wrapping, the mechanism -

Generates a temporary random EC key (transport key) having the same parameters as the wrapping EC key (and domain parameters). Saves the transport key public key material.
Performs ECDH operation using CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE with parameters of kdf, ulSharedDataLen and pSharedData using the private key of the transport EC key and the public key of wrapping EC key and gets the first ulAESKeyBits bits of the derived key to be the temporary AES key.
Wraps the target key with the temporary AES key using CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP ([AES KEYWRAP] section 6.3).
Zeroizes the temporary AES key and EC transport private key.
Concatenates public key material of the transport key and output the concatenated blob. The first part is the public key material of the transport key and the second part is the wrapped target key.

The recommended format for an asymmetric target key being wrapped is as a PKCS8 PrivateKeyInfo

For unwrapping, the mechanism -

Splits the input into two parts. The first part is the public key material of the transport key and the second part is the wrapped target key. The length of the first part is equal to the length of the public key material of the unwrapping EC key.

Note: since the transport key and the wrapping EC key share the same domain, the length of the public key material of the transport key is the same length of the public key material of the unwrapping EC key.

Performs ECDH operation using CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE with parameters of kdf, ulSharedDataLen and pSharedData using the private part of unwrapping EC key and the public part of the transport EC key and gets first ulAESKeyBits bits of the derived key to be the temporary AES key.
Un-wraps the target key from the second part with the temporary AES key using CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP ([AES KEYWRAP] section 6.3).
Zeroizes the temporary AES key.

Table 50, CKM_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP						ü
1SR = SignRecover, VR = VerifyRecover

Constraints on key types are summarized in the following table:

Table 51: ECDH AES Key Wrap: Allowed Key Types

Function	Key type
C_Derive	CKK_EC or CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY

2.3.21 ECDH AES KEY WRAP mechanism parameters

¨ CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS; CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS_PTR

CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulAESKeyBits;

CK_EC_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_ULONG ulSharedDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSharedData;

} CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

ulAESKeyBits length of the temporary AES key in bits. Can be only 128, 192 or 256.

kdf key derivation function used on the shared secret value to generate AES key.

ulSharedDataLen the length in bytes of the shared info

pSharedData Some data shared between the two parties

CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_ECDH_AES_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS.

2.3.22 FIPS 186-4

When CKM_ECDSA is operated in FIPS mode, the curves SHALL either be NIST recommended curves (with a fixed set of domain parameters) or curves with domain parameters generated as specified by ANSI X9.64. The NIST recommended curves are:

P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384, P-521

K-163, B-163, K-233, B-233

K-283, B-283, K-409, B-409

K-571, B-571

2.4 Diffie-Hellman

Table 52, Diffie-Hellman Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_DH_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_DH_PKCS_PARAMETER_GEN					ü
CKM_DH_PKCS_DERIVE							ü
CKM_X9_42_DH_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_X9_42_DH_ PARAMETER_GEN					ü
CKM_X9_42_DH_DERIVE							ü
CKM_X9_42_DH_HYBRID_DERIVE							ü
CKM_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE							ü

2.4.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_DH” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of [DH] key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_DH_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_DH_PKCS_PARAMETER_GEN

CKM_DH_PKCS_DERIVE

CKM_X9_42_DH_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_X9_42_DH_PARAMETER_GEN

CKM_X9_42_DH_DERIVE

CKM_X9_42_DH_HYBRID_DERIVE

CKM_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE

2.4.2 Diffie-Hellman public key objects

Diffie-Hellman public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_DH) hold Diffie-Hellman public keys. The following table defines the Diffie-Hellman public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 53, Diffie-Hellman Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,3	Big integer	Prime p
CKA_BASE^1,3	Big integer	Base g
CKA_VALUE^1,4	Big integer	Public value y

- Refer to [PKCS11-Base] table 11 for footnotes

The CKA_PRIME and CKA_BASE attribute values are collectively the “Diffie-Hellman domain parameters”. Depending on the token, there may be limits on the length of the key components. See PKCS #3 for more information on Diffie-Hellman keys.

The following is a sample template for creating a Diffie-Hellman public key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Diffie-Hellman public key object”;

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.4.3 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key objects

X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_X9_42_DH) hold X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public keys. The following table defines the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 54, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,3	Big integer	Prime p (³ 1024 bits, in steps of 256 bits)
CKA_BASE^1,3	Big integer	Base g
CKA_SUBPRIME^1,3	Big integer	Subprime q (³ 160 bits)
CKA_VALUE^1,4	Big integer	Public value y

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE and CKA_SUBPRIME attribute values are collectively the “X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters”. See the ANSI X9.42 standard for more information on X9.42 Diffie-Hellman keys.

The following is a sample template for creating a X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_X9_42_DH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key object”;

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BYTE subprime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

{CKA_SUBPRIME, subprime, sizeof(subprime)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.4.4 Diffie-Hellman private key objects

Diffie-Hellman private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_DH) hold Diffie-Hellman private keys. The following table defines the Diffie-Hellman private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 55, Diffie-Hellman Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,4,6	Big integer	Prime p
CKA_BASE^1,4,6	Big integer	Base g
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Big integer	Private value x
CKA_VALUE_BITS^2,6	CK_ULONG	Length in bits of private value x

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

Note that when generating a Diffie-Hellman private key, the Diffie-Hellman parameters are not specified in the key’s template. This is because Diffie-Hellman private keys are only generated as part of a Diffie-Hellman key pair, and the Diffie-Hellman parameters for the pair are specified in the template for the Diffie-Hellman public key.

The following is a sample template for creating a Diffie-Hellman private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Diffie-Hellman private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_DERIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.4.5 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key objects

X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_X9_42_DH) hold X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private keys. The following table defines the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 56, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,4,6	Big integer	Prime p (³ 1024 bits, in steps of 256 bits)
CKA_BASE^1,4,6	Big integer	Base g
CKA_SUBPRIME^1,4,6	Big integer	Subprime q (³ 160 bits)
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Big integer	Private value x

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE and CKA_SUBPRIME attribute values are collectively the “X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters”. Depending on the token, there may be limits on the length of the key components. See the ANSI X9.42 standard for more information on X9.42 Diffie-Hellman keys.

Note that when generating a X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key, the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters are not specified in the key’s template. This is because X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private keys are only generated as part of a X9.42 Diffie-Hellman key pair, and the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters for the pair are specified in the template for the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key.

The following is a sample template for creating a X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_X9_42_DH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BYTE subprime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_DERIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

{CKA_SUBPRIME, subprime, sizeof(subprime)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.4.6 Diffie-Hellman domain parameter objects

Diffie-Hellman domain parameter objects (object class CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS, key type CKK_DH) hold Diffie-Hellman domain parameters. The following table defines the Diffie-Hellman domain parameter object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 57, Diffie-Hellman Domain Parameter Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,4	Big integer	Prime p
CKA_BASE^1,4	Big integer	Base g
CKA_PRIME_BITS^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length of the prime value.

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The following is a sample template for creating a Diffie-Hellman domain parameter object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Diffie-Hellman domain parameters object”;

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

};

2.4.7 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters objects

X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters objects (object class CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS, key type CKK_X9_42_DH) hold X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters. The following table defines the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 58, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman Domain Parameters Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_PRIME^1,4	Big integer	Prime p (³ 1024 bits, in steps of 256 bits)
CKA_BASE^1,4	Big integer	Base g
CKA_SUBPRIME^1,4	Big integer	Subprime q (³ 160 bits)
CKA_PRIME_BITS^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length of the prime value.
CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length of the subprime value.

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE and CKA_SUBPRIME attribute values are collectively the “X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters”. Depending on the token, there may be limits on the length of the domain parameters components. See the ANSI X9.42 standard for more information on X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters.

The following is a sample template for creating a X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_X9_42_DH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters object”;

CK_BYTE prime[] = {...};

CK_BYTE base[] = {...};

CK_BYTE subprime[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_PRIME, prime, sizeof(prime)},

{CKA_BASE, base, sizeof(base)},

{CKA_SUBPRIME, subprime, sizeof(subprime)},

};

2.4.8 PKCS #3 Diffie-Hellman key pair generation

The PKCS #3 Diffie-Hellman key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DH_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism based on Diffie-Hellman key agreement, as defined in PKCS #3. This is what PKCS #3 calls “phase I”. It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs with a particular prime and base, as specified in the CKA_PRIME and CKA_BASE attributes of the template for the public key. If the CKA_VALUE_BITS attribute of the private key is specified, the mechanism limits the length in bits of the private value, as described in PKCS #3.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new public key and the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE, and CKA_VALUE (and the CKA_VALUE_BITS attribute, if it is not already provided in the template) attributes to the new private key; other attributes required by the Diffie-Hellman public and private key types must be specified in the templates.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Diffie-Hellman prime sizes, in bits.

2.4.9 PKCS #3 Diffie-Hellman domain parameter generation

The PKCS #3 Diffie-Hellman domain parameter generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DH_PKCS_PARAMETER_GEN, is a domain parameter generation mechanism based on Diffie-Hellman key agreement, as defined in PKCS #3.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates Diffie-Hellman domain parameters with a particular prime length in bits, as specified in the CKA_PRIME_BITS attribute of the template.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE, and CKA_PRIME_BITS attributes to the new object. Other attributes supported by the Diffie-Hellman domain parameter types may also be specified in the template, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Diffie-Hellman prime sizes, in bits.

2.4.10 PKCS #3 Diffie-Hellman key derivation

The PKCS #3 Diffie-Hellman key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_DH_PKCS_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation based on Diffie-Hellman key agreement, as defined in PKCS #3. This is what PKCS #3 calls “phase II”.

It has a parameter, which is the public value of the other party in the key agreement protocol, represented as a Cryptoki “Big integer” (i.e., a sequence of bytes, most-significant byte first).

This mechanism derives a secret key from a Diffie-Hellman private key and the public value of the other party. It computes a Diffie-Hellman secret value from the public value and private key according to PKCS #3, and truncates the result according to the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of the template and, if it has one and the key type supports it, the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template. (The truncation removes bytes from the leading end of the secret value.) The mechanism contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new key; other attributes required by the key type must be specified in the template.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability[2]:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Diffie-Hellman prime sizes, in bits.

2.4.11 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman mechanism parameters

¨ CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE, CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE_PTR

CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE is used to indicate the Key Derivation Function (KDF) applied to derive keying data from a shared secret. The key derivation function will be used by the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman key agreement schemes. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE;

The following table lists the defined functions.

Table 59, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman Key Derivation Functions

Source Identifier

CKD_NULL

CKD_SHA1_KDF_ASN1

CKD_SHA1_KDF_CONCATENATE

The key derivation function CKD_NULL produces a raw shared secret value without applying any key derivation function whereas the key derivation functions CKD_SHA1_KDF_ASN1 and CKD_SHA1_KDF_CONCATENATE, which are both based on SHA-1, derive keying data from the shared secret value as defined in the ANSI X9.42 standard.

CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE_PTR is a pointer to a CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE.

¨ CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS, CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_X9_42_DH_DERIVE key derivation mechanism, where each party contributes one key pair. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_ULONG ulOtherInfoLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pOtherInfo;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData;

} CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

kdf key derivation function used on the shared secret value

ulOtherInfoLen the length in bytes of the other info

pOtherInfo some data shared between the two parties

ulPublicDataLen the length in bytes of the other party’s X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key

pPublicData pointer to other party’s X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key value

With the key derivation function CKD_NULL, pOtherInfo must be NULL and ulOtherInfoLen must be zero. With the key derivation function CKD_SHA1_KDF_ASN1, pOtherInfo must be supplied, which contains an octet string, specified in ASN.1 DER encoding, consisting of mandatory and optional data shared by the two parties intending to share the shared secret. With the key derivation function CKD_SHA1_KDF_CONCATENATE, an optional pOtherInfo may be supplied, which consists of some data shared by the two parties intending to share the shared secret. Otherwise, pOtherInfo must be NULL and ulOtherInfoLen must be zero.

CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS.

· CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS, CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_X9_42_DH_HYBRID_DERIVE and CKM_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE key derivation mechanisms, where each party contributes two key pairs. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_ULONG ulOtherInfoLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pOtherInfo;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData;

CK_ULONG ulPrivateDataLen;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hPrivateData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen2;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData2;

} CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

kdf key derivation function used on the shared secret value

ulOtherInfoLen the length in bytes of the other info

pOtherInfo some data shared between the two parties

ulPublicDataLen the length in bytes of the other party’s first X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key

pPublicData pointer to other party’s first X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key value

ulPrivateDataLen the length in bytes of the second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key

hPrivateData key handle for second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key value

ulPublicDataLen2 the length in bytes of the other party’s second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key

pPublicData2 pointer to other party’s second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key value

CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS.

· CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS, CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE key derivation mechanism, where each party contributes two key pairs. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_X9_42_DH_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_ULONG ulOtherInfoLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pOtherInfo;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData;

CK_ULONG ulPrivateDataLen;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hPrivateData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen2;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData2;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE publicKey;

} CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

kdf key derivation function used on the shared secret value

ulOtherInfoLen the length in bytes of the other info

pOtherInfo some data shared between the two parties

ulPublicDataLen the length in bytes of the other party’s first X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key

pPublicData pointer to other party’s first X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key value

ulPrivateDataLen the length in bytes of the second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key

hPrivateData key handle for second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private key value

ulPublicDataLen2 the length in bytes of the other party’s second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key

pPublicData2 pointer to other party’s second X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public key value

publicKey Handle to the first party’s ephemeral public key

CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS.

2.4.12 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman key pair generation

The X9.42 Diffie-Hellman key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_X9_42_DH_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism based on Diffie-Hellman key agreement, as defined in the ANSI X9.42 standard.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs with a particular prime, base and subprime, as specified in the CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE and CKA_SUBPRIME attributes of the template for the public key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new public key and the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE, CKA_SUBPRIME, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new private key; other attributes required by the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman public and private key types must be specified in the templates.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of X9.42 Diffie-Hellman prime sizes, in bits, for the CKA_PRIME attribute.

2.4.13 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameter generation

The X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameter generation mechanism, denoted CKM_X9_42_DH_PARAMETER_GEN, is a domain parameters generation mechanism based on X9.42 Diffie-Hellman key agreement, as defined in the ANSI X9.42 standard.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters with particular prime and subprime length in bits, as specified in the CKA_PRIME_BITS and CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS attributes of the template for the domain parameters.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_PRIME, CKA_BASE, CKA_SUBPRIME, CKA_PRIME_BITS and CKA_SUBPRIME_BITS attributes to the new object. Other attributes supported by the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameter types may also be specified in the template for the domain parameters, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of X9.42 Diffie-Hellman prime sizes, in bits.

2.4.14 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman key derivation

The X9.42 Diffie-Hellman key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_X9_42_DH_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation based on the Diffie-Hellman key agreement scheme, as defined in the ANSI X9.42 standard, where each party contributes one key pair, all using the same X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters.

It has a parameter, a CK_X9_42_DH1_DERIVE_PARAMS structure.

This mechanism derives a secret value, and truncates the result according to the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of the template and, if it has one and the key type supports it, the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template. (The truncation removes bytes from the leading end of the secret value.) The mechanism contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new key; other attributes required by the key type must be specified in the template. Note that in order to validate this mechanism it may be required to use the CKA_VALUE attribute as the key of a general-length MAC mechanism (e.g. CKM_SHA_1_HMAC_GENERAL) over some test data.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

2.4.15 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman hybrid key derivation

The X9.42 Diffie-Hellman hybrid key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_X9_42_DH_HYBRID_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation based on the Diffie-Hellman hybrid key agreement scheme, as defined in the ANSI X9.42 standard, where each party contributes two key pair, all using the same X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters.

It has a parameter, a CK_X9_42_DH2_DERIVE_PARAMS structure.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

2.4.16 X9.42 Diffie-Hellman Menezes-Qu-Vanstone key derivation

The X9.42 Diffie-Hellman Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (MQV) key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation based the MQV scheme, as defined in the ANSI X9.42 standard, where each party contributes two key pairs, all using the same X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters.

It has a parameter, a CK_X9_42_MQV_DERIVE_PARAMS structure.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

2.5 Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (x3dh)

The Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman mechanism described here is the one described in [SIGNAL].

Table 60, Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen.Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_X3DH_INITIALIZE							ü
CKM_X3DH_RESPOND							ü

2.5.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_X3DH_INITIALIZE

CKM_X3DH_RESPOND

2.5.2 Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman key objects

Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman uses Elliptic Curve keys in Montgomery representation (CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY). Three different kinds of keys are used, they differ in their lifespan:

identity keys are long-term keys, which identify the peer,
prekeys are short-term keys, which should be rotated often (weekly to hourly)
onetime prekeys are keys, which should be used only once.

Any peer intending to be contacted using X3DH must publish their so-called prekey-bundle, consisting of their:

public Identity key,
current prekey, signed using XEDDA with their identity key
optionally a batch of One-time public keys.

2.5.3 Initiating an Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Initiating an Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman key exchange starts by retrieving the following required public keys (the so-called prekey-bundle) of the other peer: the Identity key, the signed public Prekey, and optionally one One-time public key.

When the necessary key material is available, the initiating party calls CKM_X3DH_INITIALIZE, also providing the following additional parameters:

· the initiators identity key

· the initiators ephemeral key (a fresh, one-time CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY type key)

CK_X3DH_INITIATE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_X3DH_INITIALIZE key exchange mechanism. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_X3DH_INITIATE_PARAMS {

CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE pPeer_identity;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE pPeer_prekey;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPrekey_signature;

CK_BYTE_PTR pOnetime_key;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE pOwn_identity;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE pOwn_ephemeral;

} CK_X3DH_INITIATE_PARAMS;

Table 61, Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman Initiate Message parameters:

Parameter	Data type	Meaning
kdf	CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE	Key derivation function
pPeer_identity	Key handle	Peers public Identity key (from the prekey-bundle)
pPeer_prekey	Key Handle	Peers public prekey (from the prekey-bundle)
pPrekey_signature	Byte array	XEDDSA signature of PEER_PREKEY (from prekey-bundle)
pOnetime_key	Byte array	Optional one-time public prekey of peer (from the prekey-bundle)
pOwn_identity	Key Handle	Initiators Identity key
pOwn_ephemeral	Key Handle	Initiators ephemeral key

2.5.4 Responding to an Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Responding an Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman key exchange is done by executing a CKM_X3DH_RESPOND mechanism. CK_X3DH_RESPOND_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_X3DH_RESPOND key exchange mechanism. All these parameter should be supplied by the Initiator in a message to the responder. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_X3DH_RESPOND_PARAMS {

CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_BYTE_PTR pIdentity_id;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPrekey_id;

CK_BYTE_PTR pOnetime_id;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE pInitiator_identity;

CK_BYTE_PTR pInitiator_ephemeral;

} CK_X3DH_RESPOND_PARAMS;

Table 62, Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman 1st Message parameters:

Parameter	Data type	Meaning
kdf	CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE	Key derivation function
pIdentity_id	Byte array	Peers public Identity key identifier (from the prekey-bundle)
pPrekey_id	Byte array	Peers public prekey identifier (from the prekey-bundle)
pOnetime_id	Byte array	Optional one-time public prekey of peer (from the prekey-bundle)
pInitiator_identity	Key handle	Initiators Identity key
pInitiator_ephemeral	Byte array	Initiators ephemeral key

Where the *_id fields are identifiers marking which key has been used from the prekey-bundle, these identifiers could be the keys themselves.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability[3]:

1 The CKA_SENSITIVE and CKA_EXTRACTABLE attributes in the template for the new key can both be specified to be either CK_TRUE or CK_FALSE. If omitted, these attributes each take on some default value.

2 If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key will as well. If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to the same value as its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute.

3 Similarly, if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key will, too. If the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to the opposite value from its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute.

2.5.5 Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman parameters

· CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE, CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE_PTR

CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE is used to indicate the Key Derivation Function (KDF) applied to derive keying data from a shared secret. The key derivation function will be used by the X3DH key agreement schemes. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_X3DH_KDF_TYPE;

The following table lists the defined functions.

Table 63, X3DH: Key Derivation Functions

Source Identifier

CKD_NULL

CKD_BLAKE2B_256_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_512_KDF

CKD_SHA3_256_KDF

CKD_SHA256_KDF

CKD_SHA3_512_KDF

CKD_SHA512_KDF

2.6 Double Ratchet

The Double Ratchet is a key management algorithm managing the ongoing renewal and maintenance of short-lived session keys providing forward secrecy and break-in recovery for encrypt/decrypt operations. The algorithm is described in [DoubleRatchet]. The Signal protocol uses X3DH to exchange a shared secret in the first step, which is then used to derive a Double Ratchet secret key.

Table 64, Double Ratchet Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE							✓
CKM_X2RATCHET_RESPOND							✓
CKM_X2RATCHET_ENCRYPT	✓					✓
CKM_X2RATCHET_DECRYPT	✓					✓

2.6.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_X2RATCHET” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE

CKM_X2RATCHET_RESPOND

CKM_X2RATCHET_ENCRYPT

CKM_X2RATCHET_DECRYPT

2.6.2 Double Ratchet secret key objects

Double Ratchet secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_X2RATCHET) hold Double Ratchet keys. Double Ratchet secret keys can only be derived from shared secret keys using the mechanism CKM_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE or CKM_X2RATCHET_RESPOND. In the Signal protocol these are seeded with the shared secret derived from an Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman [X3DH] key-exchange. The following table defines the Double Ratchet secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 65, Double Ratchet Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_X2RATCHET_RK	Byte array	Root key
CKA_X2RATCHET_HKS	Byte array	Sender Header key
CKA_X2RATCHET_HKR	Byte array	Receiver Header key
CKA_X2RATCHET_NHKS	Byte array	Next Sender Header Key
CKA_X2RATCHET_NHKR	Byte array	Next Receiver Header Key
CKA_X2RATCHET_CKS	Byte array	Sender Chain key
CKA_X2RATCHET_CKR	Byte array	Receiver Chain key
CKA_X2RATCHET_DHS	Byte array	Sender DH secret key
CKA_X2RATCHET_DHP	Byte array	Sender DH public key
CKA_X2RATCHET_DHR	Byte array	Receiver DH public key
CKA_X2RATCHET_NS	ULONG	Message number send
CKA_X2RATCHET_NR	ULONG	Message number receive
CKA_X2RATCHET_PNS	ULONG	Previous message number send
CKA_X2RATCHET_BOBS1STMSG	BOOL	Is this bob and has he ever sent a message?
CKA_X2RATCHET_ISALICE	BOOL	Is this Alice?
CKA_X2RATCHET_BAGSIZE	ULONG	How many out-of-order keys do we store
CKA_X2RATCHET_BAG	Byte array	Out-of-order keys

2.6.3 Double Ratchet key derivation

The Double Ratchet key derivation mechanisms depend on who is the initiating party, and who the receiving, denoted CKM_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE and CKM_X2RATCHET_RESPOND, are the key derivation mechanisms for the Double Ratchet. Usually the keys are derived from a shared secret by executing a X3DH key exchange.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Additionally the attribute flags indicating which functions the key supports are also contributed by the mechanism.

For this mechanism, the only allowed values are 255 and 448 as RFC 8032 only defines curves of these two sizes. A Cryptoki implementation may support one or both of these curves and should set the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields accordingly.

· CK_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE_PARAMS; CK_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE_PARAMS provides the parameters to the CKM_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR sk;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE peer_public_prekey;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE peer_public_identity;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE own_public_identity;

CK_BBOOL bEncryptedHeader;

CK_ULONG eCurve;

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE aeadMechanism;

CK_X2RATCHET_KDF_TYPE kdfMechanism;

} CK_X2RATCHET_INITIALIZE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

sk the shared secret with peer (derived using X3DH)

peers_public_prekey Peers public prekey which the Initiator used in the X3DH

peers_public_identity Peers public identity which the Initiator used in the X3DH

own_public_identity Initiators public identity as used in the X3DH

bEncryptedHeader whether the headers are encrypted

eCurve 255 for curve 25519 or 448 for curve 448

aeadMechanism a mechanism supporting AEAD encryption

kdfMechanism a Key Derivation Mechanism, such as CKD_BLAKE2B_512_KDF

· CK_X2RATCHET_RESPOND_PARAMS; CK_X2RATCHET_RESPOND_PARAMS_PTR

CK_X2RATCHET_RESPOND_PARAMS provides the parameters to the CKM_X2RATCHET_RESPOND mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_X2RATCHET_RESPOND_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR sk;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE own_prekey;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE initiator_identity;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE own_public_identity;

CK_BBOOL bEncryptedHeader;

CK_ULONG eCurve;

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE aeadMechanism;

CK_X2RATCHET_KDF_TYPE kdfMechanism;

} CK_X2RATCHET_RESPOND_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

sk shared secret with the Initiator

own_prekey Own Prekey pair that the Initiator used

initiator_identity Initiators public identity key used

own_public_identity as used in the prekey bundle by the initiator in the X3DH

bEncryptedHeader whether the headers are encrypted

eCurve 255 for curve 25519 or 448 for curve 448

aeadMechanism a mechanism supporting AEAD encryption

kdfMechanism a Key Derivation Mechanism, such as CKD_BLAKE2B_512_KDF

2.6.4 Double Ratchet Encryption mechanism

The Double Ratchet encryption mechanism, denoted CKM_X2RATCHET_ENCRYPT and CKM_X2RATCHET_DECRYPT, are a mechanisms for single part encryption and decryption based on the Double Ratchet and its underlying AEAD cipher.

2.6.5 Double Ratchet parameters

· CK_X2RATCHET_KDF_TYPE, CK_X2RATCHET_KDF_TYPE_PTR

CK_X2RATCHET_KDF_TYPE is used to indicate the Key Derivation Function (KDF) applied to derive keying data from a shared secret. The key derivation function will be used by the X key derivation scheme. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_X2RATCHET_KDF_TYPE;

The following table lists the defined functions.

Table 66, X2RATCHET: Key Derivation Functions

Source Identifier

CKD_NULL

CKD_BLAKE2B_256_KDF

CKD_BLAKE2B_512_KDF

CKD_SHA3_256_KDF

CKD_SHA256_KDF

CKD_SHA3_512_KDF

CKD_SHA512_KDF

2.7 Wrapping/unwrapping private keys

Cryptoki Versions 2.01 and up allow the use of secret keys for wrapping and unwrapping RSA private keys, Diffie-Hellman private keys, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private keys, EC (also related to ECDSA) private keys and DSA private keys. For wrapping, a private key is BER-encoded according to PKCS #8’s PrivateKeyInfo ASN.1 type. PKCS #8 requires an algorithm identifier for the type of the private key. The object identifiers for the required algorithm identifiers are as follows:

rsaEncryption OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { pkcs-1 1 }

dhKeyAgreement OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { pkcs-3 1 }

dhpublicnumber OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) ansi-x942(10046) number-type(2) 1 }

id-ecPublicKey OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) ansi-x9-62(10045) publicKeyType(2) 1 }

id-dsa OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {

iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) x9-57(10040) x9cm(4) 1 }

where

pkcs-1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {

iso(1) member-body(2) US(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) 1 }

pkcs-3 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {

iso(1) member-body(2) US(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) 3 }

These parameters for the algorithm identifiers have the following types, respectively:

NULL

DHParameter ::= SEQUENCE {

prime INTEGER, -- p

base INTEGER, -- g

privateValueLength INTEGER OPTIONAL

}

DomainParameters ::= SEQUENCE {

prime INTEGER, -- p

base INTEGER, -- g

subprime INTEGER, -- q

cofactor INTEGER OPTIONAL, -- j

validationParms ValidationParms OPTIONAL

}

ValidationParms ::= SEQUENCE {

Seed BIT STRING, -- seed

PGenCounter INTEGER -- parameter verification

}

Parameters ::= CHOICE {

ecParameters ECParameters,

namedCurve CURVES.&id({CurveNames}),

implicitlyCA NULL

}

Dss-Parms ::= SEQUENCE {

p INTEGER,

q INTEGER,

g INTEGER

}

For the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman domain parameters, the cofactor and the validationParms optional fields should not be used when wrapping or unwrapping X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private keys since their values are not stored within the token.

For the EC domain parameters, the use of namedCurve is recommended over the choice ecParameters. The choice implicitlyCA must not be used in Cryptoki.

Within the PrivateKeyInfo type:

· RSA private keys are BER-encoded according to PKCS #1’s RSAPrivateKey ASN.1 type. This type requires values to be present for all the attributes specific to Cryptoki’s RSA private key objects. In other words, if a Cryptoki library does not have values for an RSA private key’s CKA_MODULUS, CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT, CKA_PRIVATE_EXPONENT, CKA_PRIME_1, CKA_PRIME_2, CKA_EXPONENT_1, CKA_EXPONENT_2, and CKA_COEFFICIENT values, it must not create an RSAPrivateKey BER-encoding of the key, and so it must not prepare it for wrapping.

· Diffie-Hellman private keys are represented as BER-encoded ASN.1 type INTEGER.

· X9.42 Diffie-Hellman private keys are represented as BER-encoded ASN.1 type INTEGER.

· EC (also related with ECDSA) private keys are BER-encoded according to SECG SEC 1 ECPrivateKey ASN.1 type:

ECPrivateKey ::= SEQUENCE {

Version INTEGER { ecPrivkeyVer1(1) } (ecPrivkeyVer1),

privateKey OCTET STRING,

parameters [0] Parameters OPTIONAL,

publicKey [1] BIT STRING OPTIONAL

}

Since the EC domain parameters are placed in the PKCS #8’s privateKeyAlgorithm field, the optional parameters field in an ECPrivateKey must be omitted. A Cryptoki application must be able to unwrap an ECPrivateKey that contains the optional publicKey field; however, what is done with this publicKey field is outside the scope of Cryptoki.

· DSA private keys are represented as BER-encoded ASN.1 type INTEGER.

Once a private key has been BER-encoded as a PrivateKeyInfo type, the resulting string of bytes is encrypted with the secret key. This encryption must be done in CBC mode with PKCS padding.

Unwrapping a wrapped private key undoes the above procedure. The CBC-encrypted ciphertext is decrypted, and the PKCS padding is removed. The data thereby obtained are parsed as a PrivateKeyInfo type, and the wrapped key is produced. An error will result if the original wrapped key does not decrypt properly, or if the decrypted unpadded data does not parse properly, or its type does not match the key type specified in the template for the new key. The unwrapping mechanism contributes only those attributes specified in the PrivateKeyInfo type to the newly-unwrapped key; other attributes must be specified in the template, or will take their default values.

Earlier drafts of PKCS #11 Version 2.0 and Version 2.01 used the object identifier

DSA OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { algorithm 12 }

algorithm OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {

iso(1) identifier-organization(3) oiw(14) secsig(3) algorithm(2) }

with associated parameters

DSAParameters ::= SEQUENCE {

prime1 INTEGER, -- modulus p

prime2 INTEGER, -- modulus q

base INTEGER -- base g

}

for wrapping DSA private keys. Note that although the two structures for holding DSA domain parameters appear identical when instances of them are encoded, the two corresponding object identifiers are different.

2.8 Generic secret key

Table 67, Generic Secret Key Mechanisms vs. Functions

Functions

Mechanism

Encrypt

Decrypt

Sign

Verify

VR¹

Digest

Gen.

Key/

Key

Pair

Wrap

Unwrap

Derive

CKM_GENERIC_SECRET_KEY_GEN

2.8.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_GENERIC_SECRET” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_GENERIC_SECRET_KEY_GEN

2.8.2 Generic secret key objects

Generic secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_GENERIC_SECRET) hold generic secret keys. These keys do not support encryption or decryption; however, other keys can be derived from them and they can be used in HMAC operations. The following table defines the generic secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

These key types are used in several of the mechanisms described in this section.

Table 68, Generic Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (arbitrary length)
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The following is a sample template for creating a generic secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_GENERIC_SECRET;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A generic secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_DERIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

CKA_CHECK_VALUE: The value of this attribute is derived from the key object by taking the first three bytes of the SHA-1 hash of the generic secret key object’s CKA_VALUE attribute.

2.8.3 Generic secret key generation

The generic secret key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_GENERIC_SECRET_KEY_GEN, is used to generate generic secret keys. The generated keys take on any attributes provided in the template passed to the C_GenerateKey call, and the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute specifies the length of the key to be generated.

It does not have a parameter.

The template supplied must specify a value for the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute. If the template specifies an object type and a class, they must have the following values:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE = CKK_GENERIC_SECRET;

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of key sizes, in bits.

2.9 HMAC mechanisms

Refer to RFC2104 and FIPS 198 for HMAC algorithm description. The HMAC secret key shall correspond to the PKCS11 generic secret key type or the mechanism specific key types (see mechanism definition). Such keys, for use with HMAC operations can be created using C_CreateObject or C_GenerateKey.

The RFC also specifies test vectors for the various hash function based HMAC mechanisms described in the respective hash mechanism descriptions. The RFC should be consulted to obtain these test vectors.

2.9.1 General block cipher mechanism parameters

· CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS; CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS_PTR

CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS provides the parameters to the general-length MACing mechanisms of the DES, DES3 (triple-DES), AES, Camellia, SEED, and ARIA ciphers. It also provides the parameters to the general-length HMACing mechanisms (i.e.,SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, and SHA-512/T family) and the two SSL 3.0 MACing mechanisms, (i.e., MD5 and SHA-1). It holds the length of the MAC that these mechanisms produce. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS;

CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS.

2.10 AES

For the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) see [FIPS PUB 197].

Table 69, AES Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_AES_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_AES_ECB	ü					ü
CKM_AES_CBC	ü					ü
CKM_AES_CBC_PAD	ü					ü
CKM_AES_MAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_AES_MAC		ü
CKM_AES_OFB	ü					ü
CKM_AES_CFB64	ü					ü
CKM_AES_CFB8	ü					ü
CKM_AES_CFB128	ü					ü
CKM_AES_CFB1	ü					ü
CKM_AES_XCBC_MAC		ü
CKM_AES_XCBC_MAC_96		ü

2.10.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_AES” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_AES_KEY_GEN

CKM_AES_ECB

CKM_AES_CBC

CKM_AES_MAC

CKM_AES_MAC_GENERAL

CKM_AES_CBC_PAD

CKM_AES_OFB

CKM_AES_CFB64

CKM_AES_CFB8

CKM_AES_CFB128

CKM_AES_CFB1

CKM_AES_XCBC_MAC

CKM_AES_XCBC_MAC_96

2.10.2 AES secret key objects

AES secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_AES) hold AES keys. The following table defines the AES secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 70, AES Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (16, 24, or 32 bytes)
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3,6	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The following is a sample template for creating an AES secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_AES;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An AES secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

CKA_CHECK_VALUE: The value of this attribute is derived from the key object by taking the first three bytes of the ECB encryption of a single block of null (0x00) bytes, using the default cipher associated with the key type of the secret key object.

2.10.3 AES key generation

The AES key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_AES_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s Advanced Encryption Standard.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates AES keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the AES key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.10.4 AES-ECB

AES-ECB, denoted CKM_AES_ECB, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on NIST Advanced Encryption Standard and electronic codebook mode.

It does not have a parameter.

This mechanism can wrap and unwrap any secret key. Of course, a particular token may not be able to wrap/unwrap every secret key that it supports. For wrapping, the mechanism encrypts the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped, padded on the trailing end with up to block size minus one null bytes so that the resulting length is a multiple of the block size. The output data is the same length as the padded input data. It does not wrap the key type, key length, or any other information about the key; the application must convey these separately.

For unwrapping, the mechanism decrypts the wrapped key, and truncates the result according to the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of the template and, if it has one, and the key type supports it, the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template. The mechanism contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new key; other attributes required by the key type must be specified in the template.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 71, AES-ECB: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	AES	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	AES	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_WrapKey	AES	any	input length rounded up to multiple of block size
C_UnwrapKey	AES	multiple of block size	determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.10.5 AES-CBC

AES-CBC, denoted CKM_AES_CBC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on NIST’s Advanced Encryption Standard and cipher-block chaining mode.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 72, AES-CBC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	AES	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	AES	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_WrapKey	AES	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	AES	multiple of block size	determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.10.6 AES-CBC with PKCS padding

AES-CBC with PKCS padding, denoted CKM_AES_CBC_PAD, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on NIST’s Advanced Encryption Standard; cipher-block chaining mode; and the block cipher padding method detailed in PKCS #7.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

The PKCS padding in this mechanism allows the length of the plaintext value to be recovered from the ciphertext value. Therefore, when unwrapping keys with this mechanism, no value should be specified for the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute.

In addition to being able to wrap and unwrap secret keys, this mechanism can wrap and unwrap RSA, Diffie-Hellman, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman, EC (also related to ECDSA) and DSA private keys (see Section 2.7 for details). The entries in the table below for data length constraints when wrapping and unwrapping keys do not apply to wrapping and unwrapping private keys.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 73, AES-CBC with PKCS Padding: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt	AES	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_Decrypt	AES	multiple of block size	between 1 and block size bytes shorter than input length
C_WrapKey	AES	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	AES	multiple of block size	between 1 and block length bytes shorter than input length

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.10.7 AES-OFB

AES-OFB, denoted CKM_AES_OFB. It is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption with AES. AES-OFB mode is described in [NIST sp800-38a].

It has a parameter, an initialization vector for this mode. The initialization vector has the same length as the block size.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 74, AES-OFB: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	AES	any	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	AES	any	same as input length	no final part

For this mechanism the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure is as specified for CBC mode.

2.10.8 AES-CFB

Cipher AES has a cipher feedback mode, AES-CFB, denoted CKM_AES_CFB8, CKM_AES_CFB64, and CKM_AES_CFB128. It is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption with AES. AES-OFB mode is described [NIST sp800-38a].

Table 75, AES-CFB: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	AES	any	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	AES	any	same as input length	no final part

For this mechanism the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure is as specified for CBC mode.

2.10.9 General-length AES-MAC

General-length AES-MAC, denoted CKM_AES_MAC_GENERAL, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification, based on NIST Advanced Encryption Standard as defined in FIPS PUB 197 and data authentication as defined in FIPS PUB 113.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure, which specifies the output length desired from the mechanism.

The output bytes from this mechanism are taken from the start of the final AES cipher block produced in the MACing process.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 76, General-length AES-MAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	AES	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters
C_Verify	AES	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.10.10 AES-MAC

AES-MAC, denoted by CKM_AES_MAC, is a special case of the general-length AES-MAC mechanism. AES-MAC always produces and verifies MACs that are half the block size in length.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 77, AES-MAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	AES	Any	½ block size (8 bytes)
C_Verify	AES	Any	½ block size (8 bytes)

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.10.11 AES-XCBC-MAC

AES-XCBC-MAC, denoted CKM_AES_XCBC_MAC, is a mechanism for single and multiple part signatures and verification; based on NIST’s Advanced Encryption Standard and [RFC 3566].

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 78, AES-XCBC-MAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	AES	Any	16 bytes
C_Verify	AES	Any	16 bytes

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.10.12 AES-XCBC-MAC-96

AES-XCBC-MAC-96, denoted CKM_AES_XCBC_MAC_96, is a mechanism for single and multiple part signatures and verification; based on NIST’s Advanced Encryption Standard and [RFC 3566].

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 79, AES-XCBC-MAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	AES	Any	12 bytes
C_Verify	AES	Any	12 bytes

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.11 AES with Counter

Table 80, AES with Counter Mechanisms vs. Functions

Functions

Mechanism

Encrypt

Decrypt

Sign

Verify

VR¹

Digest

Gen.

Key/

Key

Pair

Wrap

Unwrap

Derive

CKM_AES_CTR

2.11.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_AES_CTR

2.11.2 AES with Counter mechanism parameters

¨ CK_AES_CTR_PARAMS; CK_AES_CTR_PARAMS_PTR

CK_AES_CTR_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_AES_CTR mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_AES_CTR_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulCounterBits;

CK_BYTE cb[16];

} CK_AES_CTR_PARAMS;

ulCounterBits specifies the number of bits in the counter block (cb) that shall be incremented. This number shall be such that 0 < ulCounterBits <= 128. For any values outside this range the mechanism shall return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID.

It's up to the caller to initialize all of the bits in the counter block including the counter bits. The counter bits are the least significant bits of the counter block (cb). They are a big-endian value usually starting with 1. The rest of ‘cb’ is for the nonce, and maybe an optional IV.

E.g. as defined in [RFC 3686]:

    0                   1                   2                   3

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   |                            Nonce                              |

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   |                  Initialization Vector (IV)                   |

   |                                                               |

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   |                         Block Counter                         |

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

This construction permits each packet to consist of up to 2³²-1 blocks = 4,294,967,295 blocks = 68,719,476,720 octets.

CK_AES_CTR_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_AES_CTR_PARAMS.

2.11.3 AES with Counter Encryption / Decryption

Generic AES counter mode is described in NIST Special Publication 800-38A and in RFC 3686. These describe encryption using a counter block which may include a nonce to guarantee uniqueness of the counter block. Since the nonce is not incremented, the mechanism parameter must specify the number of counter bits in the counter block.

The block counter is incremented by 1 after each block of plaintext is processed. There is no support for any other increment functions in this mechanism.

If an attempt to encrypt/decrypt is made which will cause an overflow of the counter block’s counter bits, then the mechanism shall return CKR_DATA_LEN_RANGE. Note that the mechanism should allow the final post increment of the counter to overflow (if it implements it this way) but not allow any further processing after this point. E.g. if ulCounterBits = 2 and the counter bits start as 1 then only 3 blocks of data can be processed.

2.12 AES CBC with Cipher Text Stealing CTS

Ref [NIST AES CTS]

This mode allows unpadded data that has length that is not a multiple of the block size to be encrypted to the same length of cipher text.

Table 81, AES CBC with Cipher Text Stealing CTS Mechanisms vs. Functions

Functions

Mechanism

Encrypt

Decrypt

Sign

Verify

VR¹

Digest

Gen.

Key/

Key

Pair

Wrap

Unwrap

Derive

CKM_AES_CTS

2.12.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_AES_CTS

2.12.2 AES CTS mechanism parameters

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

Table 82, AES-CTS: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	AES	Any, ≥ block size (16 bytes)	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	AES	any, ≥ block size (16 bytes)	same as input length	no final part

2.13 Additional AES Mechanisms

Table 83, Additional AES Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_AES_GCM	ü					ü
CKM_AES_CCM	ü					ü
CKM_AES_GMAC		ü

2.13.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_AES_GCM

CKM_AES_CCM

CKM_AES_GMAC

Generator Functions:

CKG_NO_GENERATE

CKG_GENERATE

CKG_GENERATE_COUNTER

CKG_GENERATE_RANDOM

2.13.2 AES-GCM Authenticated Encryption / Decryption

Generic GCM mode is described in [GCM]. To set up for AES-GCM use the following process, where K (key) and AAD (additional authenticated data) are as described in [GCM]. AES-GCM uses CK_GCM_PARAMS for Encrypt, Decrypt and CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS for MessageEncrypt and MessageDecrypt.

Encrypt:

Set the IV length ulIvLen in the parameter block.
Set the IV data pIv in the parameter block.
Set the AAD data pAAD and size ulAADLen in the parameter block. pAAD may be NULL if ulAADLen is 0.
Set the tag length ulTagBits in the parameter block.
Call C_EncryptInit() for CKM_AES_GCM mechanism with parameters and key K.
Call C_Encrypt(), or C_EncryptUpdate()*[4] C_EncryptFinal(), for the plaintext obtaining ciphertext and authentication tag output.

Decrypt:

Set the IV length ulIvLen in the parameter block.
Set the IV data pIv in the parameter block.
Set the AAD data pAAD and size ulAADLen in the parameter block. pAAD may be NULL if ulAADLen is 0.
Set the tag length ulTagBits in the parameter block.
Call C_DecryptInit() for CKM_AES_GCM mechanism with parameters and key K.
Call C_Decrypt(), or C_DecryptUpdate()*¹ C_DecryptFinal(), for the ciphertext, including the appended tag, obtaining plaintext output. Note: since CKM_AES_GCM is an AEAD cipher, no data should be returned until C_Decrypt() or C_DecryptFinal().

MessageEncrypt:

Set the IV length ulIvLen in the parameter block.
Set pIv to hold the IV data returned from C_EncryptMessage() and C_EncryptMessageBegin(). If ulIvFixedBits is not zero, then the most significant bits of pIV contain the fixed IV. If ivGenerator is set to CKG_NO_GENERATE, pIv is an input parameter with the full IV.
Set the ulIvFixedBits and ivGenerator fields in the parameter block.
Set the tag length ulTagBits in the parameter block.
Set pTag to hold the tag data returned from C_EncryptMessage() or the final C_EncryptMessageNext().
Call C_MessageEncryptInit() for CKM_AES_GCM mechanism key K.
Call C_EncryptMessage(), or C_EncryptMessageBegin() followed by C_EncryptMessageNext()*[5]. The mechanism parameter is passed to all three of these functions.
Call C_MessageEncryptFinal() to close the message decryption.

MessageDecrypt:

Set the IV length ulIvLen in the parameter block.
Set the IV data pIv in the parameter block.
The ulIvFixedBits and ivGenerator fields are ignored.
Set the tag length ulTagBits in the parameter block.
Set the tag data pTag in the parameter block before C_DecryptMessage() or the final C_DecryptMessageNext().
Call C_MessageDecryptInit() for CKM_AES_GCM mechanism key K.
Call C_DecryptMessage(), or C_DecryptMessageBegin followed by C_DecryptMessageNext()*[6]. The mechanism parameter is passed to all three of these functions.
Call C_MessageDecryptFinal() to close the message decryption.

In pIv the least significant bit of the initialization vector is the rightmost bit. ulIvLen is the length of the initialization vector in bytes.

On MessageEncrypt, the meaning of ivGenerator is as follows: CKG_NO_GENERATE means the IV is passed in on MessageEncrypt and no internal IV generation is done. CKG_GENERATE means that the non-fixed portion of the IV is generated by the module internally. The generation method is not defined. CKG_GENERATE_COUNTER means that the non-fixed portion of the IV is generated by the module internally by use of an incrementing counter. CKG_GENERATE_RANDOM means that the non-fixed portion of the IV is generated by the module internally using a PRNG. In any case the entire IV, including the fixed portion, is returned in pIV.

Modules must implement CKG_GENERATE. Modules may also reject ulIvFixedBits values which are too large. Zero is always an acceptable value for ulIvFixedBits.

In Encrypt and Decrypt the tag is appended to the cipher text and the least significant bit of the tag is the rightmost bit and the tag bits are the rightmost ulTagBits bits. In MessageEncrypt the tag is returned in the pTag field of CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS. In MesssageDecrypt the tag is provided by the pTag field of CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS.

The key type for K must be compatible with CKM_AES_ECB and the C_EncryptInit()/C_DecryptInit()/C_MessageEncryptInit()/C_MessageDecryptInit() calls shall behave, with respect to K, as if they were called directly with CKM_AES_ECB, K and NULL parameters.

2.13.3 AES-CCM authenticated Encryption / Decryption

For IPsec (RFC 4309) and also for use in ZFS encryption. Generic CCM mode is described in [RFC 3610].

To set up for AES-CCM use the following process, where K (key), nonce and additional authenticated data are as described in [RFC 3610]. AES-CCM uses CK_CCM_PARAMS for Encrypt and Decrypt, and CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS for MessageEncrypt and MessageDecrypt.

Encrypt:

Set the message/data length ulDataLen in the parameter block.
Set the nonce length ulNonceLen and the nonce data pNonce in the parameter block.
Set the AAD data pAAD and size ulAADLen in the parameter block. pAAD may be NULL if ulAADLen is 0.
Set the MAC length ulMACLen in the parameter block.
Call C_EncryptInit() for CKM_AES_CCM mechanism with parameters and key K.
Call C_Encrypt(), C_EncryptUpdate(), or C_EncryptFinal(), for the plaintext obtaining the final ciphertext output and the MAC. The total length of data processed must be ulDataLen. The output length will be ulDataLen + ulMACLen.

Decrypt:

Set the message/data length ulDataLen in the parameter block. This length must not include the length of the MAC that is appended to the cipher text.
Set the nonce length ulNonceLen and the nonce data pNonce in the parameter block.
Set the AAD data pAAD and size ulAADLen in the parameter block. pAAD may be NULL if ulAADLen is 0.
Set the MAC length ulMACLen in the parameter block.
Call C_DecryptInit() for CKM_AES_CCM mechanism with parameters and key K.

Call C_Decrypt(), C_DecryptUpdate(), or C_DecryptFinal(), for the ciphertext, including the appended MAC, obtaining plaintext output. The total length of data processed must be ulDataLen + ulMACLen. Note: since CKM_AES_CCM is an AEAD cipher, no data should be returned until C_Decrypt() or C_DecryptFinal().

MessageEncrypt:

Set the message/data length ulDataLen in the parameter block.
Set the nonce length ulNonceLen.
Set pNonce to hold the nonce data returned from C_EncryptMessage() and C_EncryptMessageBegin(). If ulNonceFixedBits is not zero, then the most significant bits of pNonce contain the fixed nonce. If nonceGenerator is set to CKG_NO_GENERATE, pNonce is an input parameter with the full nonce.
Set the ulNonceFixedBits and nonceGenerator fields in the parameter block.
Set the MAC length ulMACLen in the parameter block.
Set pMAC to hold the MAC data returned from C_EncryptMessage() or the final C_EncryptMessageNext().
Call C_MessageEncryptInit() for CKM_AES_CCM mechanism key K.
Call C_EncryptMessage(), or C_EncryptMessageBegin() followed by C_EncryptMessageNext()*[7].. The mechanism parameter is passed to all three functions.
Call C_MessageEncryptFinal() to close the message encryption.
The MAC is returned in pMac of the CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS structure.

MessageDecrypt:

Set the message/data length ulDataLen in the parameter block.
Set the nonce length ulNonceLen and the nonce data pNonce in the parameter block
The ulNonceFixedBits and nonceGenerator fields in the parameter block are ignored.
Set the MAC length ulMACLen in the parameter block.
Set the MAC data pMAC in the parameter block before C_DecryptMessage() or the final C_DecryptMessageNext().
Call C_MessageDecryptInit() for CKM_AES_CCM mechanism key K.
Call C_DecryptMessage(), or C_DecryptMessageBegin() followed by C_DecryptMessageNext()*[8]. The mechanism parameter is passed to all three functions.
Call C_MessageDecryptFinal() to close the message decryption.

In pNonce the least significant bit of the nonce is the rightmost bit. ulNonceLen is the length of the nonce in bytes.

On MessageEncrypt, the meaning of nonceGenerator is as follows: CKG_NO_GENERATE means the nonce is passed in on MessageEncrypt and no internal MAC generation is done. CKG_GENERATE means that the non-fixed portion of the nonce is generated by the module internally. The generation method is not defined. CKG_GENERATE_COUNTER means that the non-fixed portion of the nonce is generated by the module internally by use of an incrementing counter. CKG_GENERATE_RANDOM means that the non-fixed portion of the nonce is generated by the module internally using a PRNG. In any case the entire nonce, including the fixed portion, is returned in pNonce.

Modules must implement CKG_GENERATE. Modules may also reject ulNonceFixedBits values which are too large. Zero is always an acceptable value for ulNonceFixedBits.

In Encrypt and Decrypt the MAC is appended to the cipher text and the least significant byte of the MAC is the rightmost byte and the MAC bytes are the rightmost ulMACLen bytes. In MessageEncrypt the MAC is returned in the pMAC field of CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS. In MesssageDecrypt the MAC is provided by the pMAC field of CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS.

2.13.4 AES-GMAC

AES-GMAC, denoted CKM_AES_GMAC, is a mechanism for single and multiple-part signatures and verification. It is described in NIST Special Publication 800-38D [GMAC]. GMAC is a special case of GCM that authenticates only the Additional Authenticated Data (AAD) part of the GCM mechanism parameters. When GMAC is used with C_Sign or C_Verify, pData points to the AAD. GMAC does not use plaintext or ciphertext.

The signature produced by GMAC, also referred to as a Tag, the tag’s length is determined by the CK_GCM_PARAMS field ulTagBits.

The IV length is determined by the CK_GCM_PARAMS field ulIvLen.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 84, AES-GMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_AES	< 2^64	Depends on param’s ulTagBits
C_Verify	CKK_AES	< 2^64	Depends on param’s ulTagBits

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.13.5 AES GCM and CCM Mechanism parameters

¨ CK_GENERATOR_FUNCTION

Functions to generate unique IVs and nonces.

typedef CK_ULONG CK_GENERATOR_FUNCTION;

¨ CK_GCM_PARAMS; CK_GCM_PARAMS_PTR

CK_GCM_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_AES_GCM mechanism when used for Encrypt or Decrypt. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_GCM_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pIv;

CK_ULONG ulIvLen;

CK_ULONG ulIvBits;

CK_BYTE_PTR pAAD;

CK_ULONG ulAADLen;

CK_ULONG ulTagBits;

} CK_GCM_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pIv pointer to initialization vector

ulIvLen length of initialization vector in bytes. The length of the initialization vector can be any number between 1 and (2^32) - 1. 96-bit (12 byte) IV values can be processed more efficiently, so that length is recommended for situations in which efficiency is critical.

ulIvBits length of initialization vector in bits. Do no use ulIvBits to specify the length of the initialization vector, but ulIvLen instead.

pAAD pointer to additional authentication data. This data is authenticated but not encrypted.

ulAADLen length of pAAD in bytes. The length of the AAD can be any number between 0 and (2^32) – 1.

ulTagBits length of authentication tag (output following cipher text) in bits. Can be any value between 0 and 128.

CK_GCM_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_GCM_PARAMS.

¨ CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS; CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_AES_GCM mechanism when used for MessageEncrypt or MessageDecrypt. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pIv;

CK_ULONG ulIvLen;

CK_ULONG ulIvFixedBits;

CK_GENERATOR_FUNCTION ivGenerator;

CK_BYTE_PTR pTag;

CK_ULONG ulTagBits;

} CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pIv pointer to initialization vector

ulIvFixedBits number of bits of the original IV to preserve when generating an new IV. These bits are counted from the Most significant bits (to the right).

ivGenerator Function used to generate a new IV. Each IV must be unique for a given session.

pTag location of the authentication tag which is returned on MessageEncrypt, and provided on MessageDecrypt.

ulTagBits length of authentication tag in bits. Can be any value between 0 and 128.

CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_GCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS.

¨ CK_CCM_PARAMS; CK_CCM_PARAMS_PTR

CK_CCM_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_AES_CCM mechanism when used for Encrypt or Decrypt. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_CCM_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulDataLen; /*plaintext or ciphertext*/

CK_BYTE_PTR pNonce;

CK_ULONG ulNonceLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pAAD;

CK_ULONG ulAADLen;

CK_ULONG ulMACLen;

} CK_CCM_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings, where L is the size in bytes of the data length’s length (2 <= L <= 8):

ulDataLen length of the data where 0 <= ulDataLen < 2^(8L).

pNonce the nonce.

ulNonceLen length of pNonce in bytes where 7 <= ulNonceLen <= 13.

pAAD Additional authentication data. This data is authenticated but not encrypted.

ulAADLen length of pAAD in bytes where 0 <= ulAADLen <= (2^32) - 1.

ulMACLen length of the MAC (output following cipher text) in bytes. Valid values are 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16.

CK_CCM_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_CCM_PARAMS.

¨ CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS; CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_AES_CCM mechanism when used for MessageEncrypt or MessageDecrypt. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulDataLen; /*plaintext or ciphertext*/

CK_BYTE_PTR pNonce;

CK_ULONG ulNonceLen;

CK_ULONG ulNonceFixedBits;

CK_GENERATOR_FUNCTION nonceGenerator;

CK_BYTE_PTR pMAC;

CK_ULONG ulMACLen;

} CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings, where L is the size in bytes of the data length’s length (2 <= L <= 8):

ulDataLen length of the data where 0 <= ulDataLen < 2^(8L).

pNonce the nonce.

ulNonceLen length of pNonce in bytes where 7 <= ulNonceLen <= 13.

ulNonceFixedBits number of bits of the original nonce to preserve when generating a new nonce. These bits are counted from the Most significant bits (to the right).

nonceGenerator Function used to generate a new nonce. Each nonce must be unique for a given session.

pMAC location of the CCM MAC returned on MessageEncrypt, provided on MessageDecrypt

ulMACLen length of the MAC (output following cipher text) in bytes. Valid values are 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16.

CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_CCM_MESSAGE_PARAMS.

2.14 AES CMAC

Table 85, Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_AES_CMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_AES_CMAC		ü

¹ SR = SignRecover, VR = VerifyRecover.

2.14.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_AES_CMAC_GENERAL

CKM_AES_CMAC

2.14.2 Mechanism parameters

CKM_AES_CMAC_GENERAL uses the existing CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure. CKM_AES_CMAC does not use a mechanism parameter.

2.14.3 General-length AES-CMAC

General-length AES-CMAC, denoted CKM_AES_CMAC_GENERAL, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification, based on [NIST SP800-38B] and [RFC 4493].

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure, which specifies the output length desired from the mechanism.

The output bytes from this mechanism are taken from the start of the final AES cipher block produced in the MACing process.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 86, General-length AES-CMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_AES	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters
C_Verify	CKK_AES	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters

References [NIST SP800-38B] and [RFC 4493] recommend that the output MAC is not truncated to less than 64 bits. The MAC length must be specified before the communication starts, and must not be changed during the lifetime of the key. It is the caller’s responsibility to follow these rules.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.14.4 AES-CMAC

AES-CMAC, denoted CKM_AES_CMAC, is a special case of the general-length AES-CMAC mechanism. AES-MAC always produces and verifies MACs that are a full block size in length, the default output length specified by [RFC 4493].

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 87, AES-CMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_AES	any	Block size (16 bytes)
C_Verify	CKK_AES	any	Block size (16 bytes)

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.

2.15 AES XTS

Table 88, Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_AES_XTS	ü					ü
CKM_AES_XTS_KEY_GEN					ü

2.15.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_AES_XTS” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_AES_XTS

CKM_AES_XTS_KEY_GEN

2.15.2 AES-XTS secret key objects

Table 89, AES-XTS Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (32 or 64 bytes)
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3,6	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

2.15.3 AES-XTS key generation

The double-length AES-XTS key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_AES_XTS_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for double-length AES-XTS keys.

The mechanism generates AES-XTS keys with a particular length in bytes as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attributes of the template for the key.

This mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the double-length AES-XTS key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES-XTS key sizes, in bytes.

2.15.4 AES-XTS

AES-XTS (XEX-based Tweaked CodeBook mode with CipherText Stealing), denoted CKM_AES_XTS, isa mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption. It is specified in NIST SP800-38E.

Its single parameter is a Data Unit Sequence Number 16 bytes long. Supported key lengths are 32 and 64 bytes. Keys are internally split into half-length sub-keys of 16 and 32 bytes respectively. Constraintson key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 90, AES-XTS: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	CKK_AES_XTS	Any, ≥ block size (16 bytes)	Same as input length	No final part
C_Decrypt	CKK_AES_XTS	Any, ≥ block size (16 bytes)	Same as input length	No final part

2.16 AES Key Wrap

Table 91, AES Key Wrap Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP	ü					ü
CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_PAD	ü					ü
CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP	ü					ü
1SR = SignRecover, VR = VerifyRecover

2.16.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP

CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_PAD

CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP

2.16.2 AES Key Wrap Mechanism parameters

The mechanisms will accept an optional mechanism parameter as the Initialization vector which, if present, must be a fixed size array of 8 bytes for CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP and CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_PAD, resp. 4 bytes for CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP; and, if NULL, will use the default initial value defined in Section 4.3 resp. 6.2 / 6.3 of [AES KEYWRAP].

The type of this parameter is CK_BYTE_PTR and the pointer points to the array of bytes to be used as the initial value. The length shall be either 0 and the pointer NULL; or 8 for CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP / CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_PAD, resp. 4 for CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP, and the pointer non-NULL.

2.16.3 AES Key Wrap

The mechanisms support only single-part operations, single part wrapping and unwrapping, and single-part encryption and decryption.

The CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP mechanism can only wrap a key resp. encrypt a block of data whose size is an exact multiple of the AES Key Wrap algorithm block size. Wrapping / encryption is done as defined in Section 6.2 of [AES KEYWRAP].

The CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_PAD mechanism can wrap a key or encrypt a block of data of any length. It does the padding detailed in PKCS #7 of inputs (keys or data blocks), always producing wrapped output that is larger than the input key/data to be wrapped. This padding is done by the token before being passed to the AES key wrap algorithm, which then wraps / encrypts the padded block of data as defined in Section 6.2 of [AES KEYWRAP].

The CKM_AES_KEY_WRAP_KWP mechanism can wrap a key or encrypt block of data of any length. The input is padded and wrapped / encrypted as defined in Section 6.3 of [AES KEYWRAP], which produces same results as RFC 5649.

2.17 Key derivation by data encryption – DES & AES

These mechanisms allow derivation of keys using the result of an encryption operation as the key value. They are for use with the C_DeriveKey function.

Table 92, Key derivation by data encryption Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_DES_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_DES3_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_DES3_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_AES_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü

2.17.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_DES_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_DES3_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_DES3_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_AES_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA

typedef struct CK_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE iv[8];

CK_BYTE_PTR pData;

CK_ULONG length;

} CK_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS;

typedef CK_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS CK_PTR CK_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS_PTR;

typedef struct CK_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE iv[16];

CK_BYTE_PTR pData;

CK_ULONG length;

} CK_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS;

typedef CK_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS CK_PTR

CK_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS_PTR;

2.17.2 Mechanism Parameters

Uses CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA as defined in section 2.43.2

Table 93, Mechanism Parameters

CKM_DES_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA CKM_DES3_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure. Parameter is the data to be encrypted and must be a multiple of 8 bytes long.
CKM_AES_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure. Parameter is the data to be encrypted and must be a multiple of 16 long.
CKM_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA CKM_DES3_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_DES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS. Parameter is an 8 byte IV value followed by the data. The data value part must be a multiple of 8 bytes long.
CKM_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_AES_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS. Parameter is an 16 byte IV value followed by the data. The data value part must be a multiple of 16 bytes long.

2.17.3 Mechanism Description

The mechanisms will function by performing the encryption over the data provided using the base key. The resulting cipher text shall be used to create the key value of the resulting key. If not all the cipher text is used then the part discarded will be from the trailing end (least significant bytes) of the cipher text data. The derived key shall be defined by the attribute template supplied but constrained by the length of cipher text available for the key value and other normal PKCS11 derivation constraints.

Attribute template handling, attribute defaulting and key value preparation will operate as per the SHA-1 Key Derivation mechanism in section 2.20.5.

If the data is too short to make the requested key then the mechanism returns CKR_DATA_LEN_RANGE.

2.18 Double and Triple-length DES

Table 94, Double and Triple-Length DES Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_DES2_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_DES3_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_DES3_ECB	ü					ü
CKM_DES3_CBC	ü					ü
CKM_DES3_CBC_PAD	ü					ü
CKM_DES3_MAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_DES3_MAC		ü

2.18.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_DES2” and “CKK_DES3” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_DES2_KEY_GEN

CKM_DES3_KEY_GEN

CKM_DES3_ECB

CKM_DES3_CBC

CKM_DES3_MAC

CKM_DES3_MAC_GENERAL

CKM_DES3_CBC_PAD

2.18.2 DES2 secret key objects

DES2 secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_DES2) hold double-length DES keys. The following table defines the DES2 secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 95, DES2 Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (always 16 bytes long)

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base] table 11 for footnotes}

DES2 keys must always have their parity bits properly set as described in FIPS PUB 46-3 (i.e., each of the DES keys comprising a DES2 key must have its parity bits properly set). Attempting to create or unwrap a DES2 key with incorrect parity will return an error.

The following is a sample template for creating a double-length DES secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DES2;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A DES2 secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[16] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.18.3 DES3 secret key objects

DES3 secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_DES3) hold triple-length DES keys. The following table defines the DES3 secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 96, DES3 Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (always 24 bytes long)

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

DES3 keys must always have their parity bits properly set as described in FIPS PUB 46-3 (i.e., each of the DES keys comprising a DES3 key must have its parity bits properly set). Attempting to create or unwrap a DES3 key with incorrect parity will return an error.

The following is a sample template for creating a triple-length DES secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_DES3;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A DES3 secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[24] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.18.4 Double-length DES key generation

The double-length DES key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_DES2_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for double-length DES keys. The DES keys making up a double-length DES key both have their parity bits set properly, as specified in FIPS PUB 46-3.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the double-length DES key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

Double-length DES keys can be used with all the same mechanisms as triple-DES keys: CKM_DES3_ECB, CKM_DES3_CBC, CKM_DES3_CBC_PAD, CKM_DES3_MAC_GENERAL, and CKM_DES3_MAC. Triple-DES encryption with a double-length DES key is equivalent to encryption with a triple-length DES key with K1=K3 as specified in FIPS PUB 46-3.

When double-length DES keys are generated, it is token-dependent whether or not it is possible for either of the component DES keys to be “weak” or “semi-weak” keys.

2.18.5 Triple-length DES Order of Operations

Triple-length DES encryptions are carried out as specified in FIPS PUB 46-3: encrypt, decrypt, encrypt. Decryptions are carried out with the opposite three steps: decrypt, encrypt, decrypt. The mathematical representations of the encrypt and decrypt operations are as follows:

DES3-E({K1,K2,K3}, P) = E(K3, D(K2, E(K1, P)))

DES3-D({K1,K2,K3}, C) = D(K1, E(K2, D(K3, P)))

2.18.6 Triple-length DES in CBC Mode

Triple-length DES operations in CBC mode, with double or triple-length keys, are performed using outer CBC as defined in X9.52. X9.52 describes this mode as TCBC. The mathematical representations of the CBC encrypt and decrypt operations are as follows:

DES3-CBC-E({K1,K2,K3}, P) = E(K3, D(K2, E(K1, P + I)))

DES3-CBC-D({K1,K2,K3}, C) = D(K1, E(K2, D(K3, P))) + I

The value I is either an 8-byte initialization vector or the previous block of cipher text that is added to the current input block. The addition operation is used is addition modulo-2 (XOR).

2.18.7 DES and Triple length DES in OFB Mode

Table 97, DES and Triple Length DES in OFB Mode Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_DES_OFB64	ü
CKM_DES_OFB8	ü
CKM_DES_CFB64	ü
CKM_DES_CFB8	ü

Cipher DES has a output feedback mode, DES-OFB, denoted CKM_DES_OFB8 and CKM_DES_OFB64. It is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption with DES.

It has a parameter, an initialization vector for this mode. The initialization vector has the same length as the block size.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 98, OFB: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	CKK_DES, CKK_DES2, CKK_DES3	any	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	CKK_DES, CKK_DES2, CKK_DES3	any	same as input length	no final part

For this mechanism the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure is as specified for CBC mode.

2.18.8 DES and Triple length DES in CFB Mode

Cipher DES has a cipher feedback mode, DES-CFB, denoted CKM_DES_CFB8 and CKM_DES_CFB64. It is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption with DES.

It has a parameter, an initialization vector for this mode. The initialization vector has the same length as the block size.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 99, CFB: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	CKK_DES, CKK_DES2, CKK_DES3	any	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	CKK_DES, CKK_DES2, CKK_DES3	any	same as input length	no final part

For this mechanism the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure is as specified for CBC mode.

2.19 Double and Triple-length DES CMAC

Table 100, Double and Triple-length DES CMAC Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_DES3_CMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_DES3_CMAC		ü

¹ SR = SignRecover, VR = VerifyRecover.

2.19.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_DES3_CMAC_GENERAL

CKM_DES3_CMAC

2.19.2 Mechanism parameters

CKM_DES3_CMAC_GENERAL uses the existing CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure. CKM_DES3_CMAC does not use a mechanism parameter.

2.19.3 General-length DES3-MAC

General-length DES3-CMAC, denoted CKM_DES3_CMAC_GENERAL, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification with DES3 or DES2 keys, based on [NIST sp800-38b].

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure, which specifies the output length desired from the mechanism.

The output bytes from this mechanism are taken from the start of the final DES3 cipher block produced in the MACing process.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 101, General-length DES3-CMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_DES3 CKK_DES2	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters
C_Verify	CKK_DES3 CKK_DES2	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters

Reference [NIST sp800-38b] recommends that the output MAC is not truncated to less than 64 bits (which means using the entire block for DES). The MAC length must be specified before the communication starts, and must not be changed during the lifetime of the key. It is the caller’s responsibility to follow these rules.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used

2.19.4 DES3-CMAC

DES3-CMAC, denoted CKM_DES3_CMAC, is a special case of the general-length DES3-CMAC mechanism. DES3-MAC always produces and verifies MACs that are a full block size in length, since the DES3 block length is the minimum output length recommended by [NIST sp800-38b].

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 102, DES3-CMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_DES3 CKK_DES2	any	Block size (8 bytes)
C_Verify	CKK_DES3 CKK_DES2	any	Block size (8 bytes)

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.20 SHA-1

Table 103, SHA-1 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA_1				ü
CKM_SHA_1_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA_1_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA1_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA_1_KEY_GEN					ü

2.20.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA_1_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA_1

CKM_SHA_1_HMAC

CKM_SHA_1_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA1_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA_1_KEY_GEN

2.20.2 SHA-1 digest

The SHA-1 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA_1, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm with a 160-bit message digest defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 104, SHA-1: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	20

2.20.3 General-length SHA-1-HMAC

The general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA_1_HMAC_GENERAL, is a mechanism for signatures and verification. It uses the HMAC construction, based on the SHA-1 hash function. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA_1_HMAC.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-20 (the output size of SHA-1 is 20 bytes). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be taken from the start of the full 20-byte HMAC output.

Table 105, General-length SHA-1-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret

CKK_SHA_1_HMAC

any

1-20, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret

CKK_SHA_1_HMAC

any

1-20, depending on parameters

2.20.4 SHA-1-HMAC

The SHA-1-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA_1_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.3.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 20.

2.20.5 SHA-1 key derivation

SHA-1 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA1_KEY_DERIVATION, is a mechanism which provides the capability of deriving a secret key by digesting the value of another secret key with SHA-1.

The value of the base key is digested once, and the result is used to make the value of derived secret key.

· If no length or key type is provided in the template, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key. Its length will be 20 bytes (the output size of SHA-1).

· If no key type is provided in the template, but a length is, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key of the specified length.

· If no length was provided in the template, but a key type is, then that key type must have a well-defined length. If it does, then the key produced by this mechanism will be of the type specified in the template. If it doesn’t, an error will be returned.

· If both a key type and a length are provided in the template, the length must be compatible with that key type. The key produced by this mechanism will be of the specified type and length.

If a DES, DES2, or CDMF key is derived with this mechanism, the parity bits of the key will be set properly.

If the requested type of key requires more than 20 bytes, such as DES3, an error is generated.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

2.20.6 SHA-1 HMAC key generation

The SHA-1-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA_1_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA-1-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA-1-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA-1-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA_1_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.21 SHA-224

Table 106, SHA-224 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA224				ü
CKM_SHA224_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA224_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA224_RSA_PKCS		ü
CKM_SHA224_RSA_PKCS_PSS		ü
CKM_SHA224_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA224_KEY_GEN					ü

2.21.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA224_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA224

CKM_SHA224_HMAC

CKM_SHA224_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA224_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA224_KEY_GEN

2.21.2 SHA-224 digest

The SHA-224 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA224, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm with a 224-bit message digest defined in 0.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 107, SHA-224: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	28

2.21.3 General-length SHA-224-HMAC

The general-length SHA-224-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA224_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-224 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-28. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA224_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 14 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA-224 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-28 (the output size of SHA-224 is 28 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 14 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be taken from the start of the full 28-byte HMAC output.

Table 108, General-length SHA-224-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret

CKK_SHA224_HMAC

Any

1-28, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret

CKK_SHA224_HMAC

Any

1-28, depending on parameters

2.21.4 SHA-224-HMAC

The SHA-224-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA224_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-224-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 28.

2.21.5 SHA-224 key derivation

SHA-224 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA224_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 12.21.5 except that it uses the SHA-224 hash function and the relevant length is 28 bytes.

2.21.6 SHA-224 HMAC key generation

The SHA-224-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA224_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA224-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA224-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA224-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA224_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.22 SHA-256

Table 109, SHA-256 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA256				ü
CKM_SHA256_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA256_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA256_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA256_KEY_GEN					ü

2.22.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA256_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA256

CKM_SHA256_HMAC

CKM_SHA256_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA256_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA256_KEY_GEN

2.22.2 SHA-256 digest

The SHA-256 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA256, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm with a 256-bit message digest defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 110, SHA-256: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	32

2.22.3 General-length SHA-256-HMAC

The general-length SHA-256-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA256_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.3, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-256 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-32. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA256_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 16 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA-256 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-32 (the output size of SHA-256 is 32 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 16 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be taken from the start of the full 32-byte HMAC output.

Table 111, General-length SHA-256-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret,

CKK_SHA256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret,

CKK_SHA256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

2.22.4 SHA-256-HMAC

The SHA-256-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA256_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-256-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.22.3.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 32.

2.22.5 SHA-256 key derivation

SHA-256 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA256_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the SHA-256 hash function and the relevant length is 32 bytes.

2.22.6 SHA-256 HMAC key generation

The SHA-256-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA256_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA256-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA256-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA256-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA256_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.23 SHA-384

Table 112, SHA-384 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA384				ü
CKM_SHA384_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA384_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA384_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA384_KEY_GEN					ü

2.23.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA384_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

CKM_SHA384

CKM_SHA384_HMAC

CKM_SHA384_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA384_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA384_KEY_GEN

2.23.2 SHA-384 digest

The SHA-384 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA384, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm with a 384-bit message digest defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 113, SHA-384: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	48

2.23.3 General-length SHA-384-HMAC

The general-length SHA-384-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA384_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.3, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-384 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-48.

The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA384_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 24 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA-384 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 0-48 (the output size of SHA-384 is 48 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 24 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be taken from the start of the full 48-byte HMAC output.

Table 114, General-length SHA-384-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret, CKK_SHA384_HMAC

Any

1-48, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret,

CKK_SHA384_HMAC

Any

1-48, depending on parameters

2.23.4 SHA-384-HMAC

The SHA-384-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA384_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-384-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 48.

2.23.5 SHA-384 key derivation

SHA-384 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA384_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the SHA-384 hash function and the relevant length is 48 bytes.

2.23.6 SHA-384 HMAC key generation

The SHA-384-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA384_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA384-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA384-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA384-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA384_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.24 SHA-512

Table 115, SHA-512 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA512				ü
CKM_SHA512_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA512_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA512_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA512_KEY_GEN					ü

2.24.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA512_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA512

CKM_SHA512_HMAC

CKM_SHA512_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA512_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA512_KEY_GEN

2.24.2 SHA-512 digest

The SHA-512 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm with a 512-bit message digest defined in FIPS PUB 180-2.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 116, SHA-512: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	64

2.24.3 General-length SHA-512-HMAC

The general-length SHA-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.3, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-512 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-64.

The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA512_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 32 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA-512 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 0-64 (the output size of SHA-512 is 64 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 32 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be taken from the start of the full 64-byte HMAC output.

Table 117, General-length SHA-384-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret, CKK_SHA512_HMAC

Any

1-64, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret,

CKK_SHA512_HMAC

Any

1-64, depending on parameters

2.24.4 SHA-512-HMAC

The SHA-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-512-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 64.

2.24.5 SHA-512 key derivation

SHA-512 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA512_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the SHA-512 hash function and the relevant length is 64 bytes.

2.24.6 SHA-512 HMAC key generation

The SHA-512-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA512-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA512-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA512-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA512_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.25 SHA-512/224

Table 118, SHA-512/224 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA512_224				ü
CKM_SHA512_224_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA512_224_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA512_224_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA512_224_KEY_GEN					ü

2.25.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA512_224_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA512_224

CKM_SHA512_224_HMAC

CKM_SHA512_224_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA512_224_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA512_224_KEY_GEN

2.25.2 SHA-512/224 digest

The SHA-512/224 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_224, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 180-4, section 5.3.6. It is based on a 512-bit message digest with a distinct initial hash value and truncated to 224 bits. CKM_SHA512_224 is the same as CKM_SHA512_T with a parameter value of 224.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 119, SHA-512/224: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	28

2.25.3 General-length SHA-512/224-HMAC

The general-length SHA-512/224-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_224_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.3, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-512/224 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-28. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA512_224_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 14 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA-512/224 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 0-28 (the output size of SHA-512/224 is 28 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 14 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be taken from the start of the full 28-byte HMAC output.

Table 120, General-length SHA-384-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret, CKK_SHA512_224_HMAC

Any

1-28, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret,

CKK_SHA512_224_HMAC

Any

1-28, depending on parameters

2.25.4 SHA-512/224-HMAC

The SHA-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_224_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-512/224-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 28.

2.25.5 SHA-512/224 key derivation

The SHA-512/224 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA512_224_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-512 key derivation mechanism in section 2.25.5, except that it uses the SHA-512/224 hash function and the relevant length is 28 bytes.

2.25.6 SHA-512/224 HMAC key generation

The SHA-512/224-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_224_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA512/224-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA512/224-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA512/224-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA512_224_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.26 SHA-512/256

Table 121, SHA-512/256 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA512_256				ü
CKM_SHA512_256_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA512_256_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA512_256_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA512_256_KEY_GEN					ü

2.26.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA512_256_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA512_256

CKM_SHA512_256_HMAC

CKM_SHA512_256_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA512_256_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA512_256_KEY_GEN

2.26.2 SHA-512/256 digest

The SHA-512/256 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_256, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 180-4, section 5.3.6. It is based on a 512-bit message digest with a distinct initial hash value and truncated to 256 bits. CKM_SHA512_256 is the same as CKM_SHA512_T with a parameter value of 256.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 122, SHA-512/256: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	32

2.26.3 General-length SHA-512/256-HMAC

The general-length SHA-512/256-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_256_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.3, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-512/256 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-32. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA512_256_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 16 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA-512/256 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-32 (the output size of SHA-512/256 is 32 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 16 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be taken from the start of the full 32-byte HMAC output.

Table 123, General-length SHA-384-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret, CKK_SHA512_256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret,

CKK_SHA512_256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

2.26.4 SHA-512/256-HMAC

The SHA-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_256_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-512/256-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 32.

2.26.5 SHA-512/256 key derivation

The SHA-512/256 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA512_256_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-512 key derivation mechanism in section 2.25.5, except that it uses the SHA-512/256 hash function and the relevant length is 32 bytes.

2.26.6 SHA-512/256 HMAC key generation

The SHA-512/256-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_256_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA512/256-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA512/256-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA512/256-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA512_256_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.27 SHA-512/t

Table 124, SHA-512 / t Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA512_T				ü
CKM_SHA512_T_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA512_T_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA512_T_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA512_T_KEY_GEN					ü

2.27.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SHA512_T_HMAC” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA512_T

CKM_SHA512_T_HMAC

CKM_SHA512_T_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA512_T_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA512_T_KEY_GEN

2.27.2 SHA-512/t digest

The SHA-512/t mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_T, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 180-4, section 5.3.6. It is based on a 512-bit message digest with a distinct initial hash value and truncated to t bits.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the value of t in bits. The length in bytes of the desired output should be in the range of 0-⌈ t/8⌉, where 0 < t < 512, and t <> 384.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 125, SHA-512/256: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	⌈t/8⌉, where 0 < t < 512, and t <> 384

2.27.3 General-length SHA-512/t-HMAC

The general-length SHA-512/t-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_T_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.3, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-512/t hash function and length of the output should be in the range 0 – ⌈t/8⌉, where 0 < t < 512, and t <> 384.

2.27.4 SHA-512/t-HMAC

The SHA-512/t-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_T_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-512/t-HMAC mechanism.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the value of t in bits. The length in bytes of the desired output should be in the range of 0-⌈t/8⌉, where 0 < t < 512, and t <> 384.

2.27.5 SHA-512/t key derivation

The SHA-512/t key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA512_T_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-512 key derivation mechanism in section 2.25.5, except that it uses the SHA-512/t hash function and the relevant length is ⌈t/8⌉ bytes, where 0 < t < 512, and t <> 384.

2.27.6 SHA-512/t HMAC key generation

The SHA-512/t-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA512_T_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA512/t-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA512/t-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA512/t-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA512_T_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.28 SHA3-224

Table 126, SHA-224 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA3_224				ü
CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA3_224_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA3_224_KEY_GEN					ü

2.28.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA3_224

CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA3_224_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA3_224_KEY_GEN

CKK_SHA3_224_HMAC

2.28.2 SHA3-224 digest

The SHA3-224 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_224, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash 3 Algorithm with a 224-bit message digest defined in FIPS Pub 202.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 127, SHA3-224: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	28

2.28.3 General-length SHA3-224-HMAC

The general-length SHA3-224-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in section 2.20.4 except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA3-224 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-28. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA3_224_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 14 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA3-224 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-28 (the output size of SHA3-224 is 28 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 14 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 28-byte HMAC output.

Table 128, General-length SHA3-224-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	generic secret or CKK_SHA3_224_HMAC	Any	1-28, depending on parameters
C_Verify	generic secret or CKK_SHA3_224_HMAC	Any	1-28, depending on parameters

2.28.4 SHA3-224-HMAC

The SHA3-224-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA3-224-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 28.

2.28.5 SHA3-224 key derivation

SHA-224 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA3_224_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5 except that it uses the SHA3-224 hash function and the relevant length is 28 bytes.

2.28.6 SHA3-224 HMAC key generation

The SHA3-224-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_224_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA3-224-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA3-224-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA3-224-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.29 SHA3-256

Table 129, SHA3-256 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA3_256				ü
CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA3_256_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA3_256_KEY_GEN					ü

2.29.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_SHA3_256

CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA3_256_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA3_256_KEY_GEN

CKK_SHA3_256_HMAC

2.29.2 SHA3-256 digest

The SHA3-256 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_256, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash 3 Algorithm with a 256-bit message digest defined in FIPS PUB 202.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 130, SHA3-256: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	32

2.29.3 General-length SHA3-256-HMAC

The general-length SHA3-256-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.4, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA3-256 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-32. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA3_256_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 16 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA3-256 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-32 (the output size of SHA3-256 is 32 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 16 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 32-byte HMAC output.

Table 131, General-length SHA3-256-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret or CKK_SHA3_256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret or

CKK_SHA3_256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

2.29.4 SHA3-256-HMAC

The SHA-256-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA-256-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.22.3.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 32.

2.29.5 SHA3-256 key derivation

SHA-256 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA3_256_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the SHA3-256 hash function and the relevant length is 32 bytes.

2.29.6 SHA3-256 HMAC key generation

The SHA3-256-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_256_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA3-256-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA3-256-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA3-256-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.30 SHA3-384

Table 132, SHA3-384 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA3_384				ü
CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA3_384_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA3_384_KEY_GEN				ü

2.30.1 Definitions

CKM_SHA3_384

CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA3_384_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA3_384_KEY_GEN

CKK_SHA3_384_HMAC

2.30.2 SHA3-384 digest

The SHA3-384 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_384, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash 3 Algorithm with a 384-bit message digest defined in FIPS PUB 202.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 133, SHA3-384: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	48

2.30.3 General-length SHA3-384-HMAC

The general-length SHA3-384-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.4, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA-384 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-48.The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA3_384_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 24 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA3-384 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-48 (the output size of SHA3-384 is 48 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 24 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 48-byte HMAC output.

Table 134, General-length SHA3-384-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret or

CKK_SHA3_384_HMAC

Any

1-48, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret or

CKK_SHA3_384_HMAC

Any

1-48, depending on parameters

2.30.4 SHA3-384-HMAC

The SHA3-384-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA3-384-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 48.

2.30.5 SHA3-384 key derivation

SHA3-384 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA3_384_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the SHA-384 hash function and the relevant length is 48 bytes.

2.30.6 SHA3-384 HMAC key generation

The SHA3-384-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_384_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA3-384-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA3-384-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA3-384-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.31 SHA3-512

Table 135, SHA-512 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHA3_512				ü
CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC		ü
CKM_SHA3_512_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHA3_512_KEY_GEN				ü

2.31.1 Definitions

CKM_SHA3_512

CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_SHA3_512_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHA3_512_KEY_GEN

CKK_SHA3_512_HMAC

2.31.2 SHA3-512 digest

The SHA3-512 mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_512, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Secure Hash 3 Algorithm with a 512-bit message digest defined in FIPS PUB 202.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 136, SHA3-512: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	64

2.31.3 General-length SHA3-512-HMAC

The general-length SHA3-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC_GENERAL, is the same as the general-length SHA-1-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.20.4, except that it uses the HMAC construction based on the SHA3-512 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-64.The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_SHA3_512_HMAC. FIPS-198 compliant tokens may require the key length to be at least 32 bytes; that is, half the size of the SHA3-512 hash output.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-64 (the output size of SHA3-512 is 64 bytes). FIPS-198 compliant tokens may constrain the output length to be at least 4 or 32 (half the maximum length). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 64-byte HMAC output.

Table 137, General-length SHA3-512-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	generic secret or CKK_SHA3_512_HMAC	Any	1-64, depending on parameters
C_Verify	generic secret or CKK_SHA3_512_HMAC	Any	1-64, depending on parameters

2.31.4 SHA3-512-HMAC

The SHA3-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length SHA3-512-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 64.

2.31.5 SHA3-512 key derivation

SHA3-512 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHA3_512_KEY_DERIVATION, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the SHA-512 hash function and the relevant length is 64 bytes.

2.31.6 SHA3-512 HMAC key generation

The SHA3-512-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SHA3_512_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s SHA3-512-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SHA3-512-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SHA3-512-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.32 SHAKE

Table 138, SHA-512 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SHAKE_128_KEY_DERIVATION							ü
CKM_SHAKE_256_KEY_DERIVATION							ü

2.32.1 Definitions

CKM_SHAKE_128_KEY_DERIVATION

CKM_SHAKE_256_KEY_DERIVATION

2.32.2 SHAKE Key Derivation

SHAKE-128 and SHAKE-256 key derivation, denoted CKM_SHAKE_128_KEY_DERIVATION and CKM_SHAKE_256_KEY_DERIVATION, implements the SHAKE expansion function defined in FIPS 202 on the input key.

· If no length or key type is provided in the template a CKR_TEMPLATE_INCOMPLETE error is generated.

· If no key type is provided in the template, but a length is, then the key produced by this mechanism shall be a generic secret key of the specified length.

· If no length was provided in the template, but a key type is, then that key type must have a well-defined length. If it does, then the key produced by this mechanism shall be of the type specified in the template. If it doesn’t, an error shall be returned.

· If both a key type and a length are provided in the template, the length must be compatible with that key type. The key produced by this mechanism shall be of the specified type and length.

If a DES, DES2, or CDMF key is derived with this mechanism, the parity bits of the key shall be set properly.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key shall as well. If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to the same value as its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute.

· Similarly, if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key shall, too. If the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to the opposite value from its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute.

2.33 Blake2b-160

Table 139, Blake2b-160 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_BLAKE2B_160				ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_160_KEY_DERIVE							ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_160_KEY_GEN					ü

2.33.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_BLAKE2B_160

CKM_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC

CKM_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_BLAKE2B_160_KEY_DERIVE

CKM_BLAKE2B_160_KEY_GEN

CKK_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC

2.33.2 BLAKE2B-160 digest

The BLAKE2B-160 mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_160, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Blake2b Algorithm with a 160-bit message digest without a key as defined in RFC 7693.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 140, BLAKE2B-160: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	20

2.33.3 General-length BLAKE2B-160-HMAC

The general-length BLAKE2B-160-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC_GENERAL, is the keyed variant of BLAKE2b-160 and length of the output should be in the range 1-20. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-20 (the output size of BLAKE2B-160 is 20 bytes). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 20-byte HMAC output.

Table 141, General-length BLAKE2B-160-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	generic secret or CKK_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC	Any	1-20, depending on parameters
C_Verify	generic secret or CKK_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC	Any	1-20, depending on parameters

2.33.4 BLAKE2B-160-HMAC

The BLAKE2B-160-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length BLAKE2B-160-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 20.

2.33.5 BLAKE2B-160 key derivation

BLAKE2B-160 key derivation, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_160_KEY_DERIVE, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5 except that it uses the BLAKE2B-160 hash function and the relevant length is 20 bytes.

2.33.6 BLAKE2B-160 HMAC key generation

The BLAKE2B-160-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_160_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for BLAKE2B-160-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates BLAKE2B-160-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the BLAKE2B-160-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_BLAKE2B_160_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.34 BLAKE2B-256

Table 142, BLAKE2B-256 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_BLAKE2B_256				ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_256_KEY_DERIVE							ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_256_KEY_GEN					ü

2.34.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_BLAKE2B_256

CKM_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC

CKM_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_BLAKE2B_256_KEY_DERIVE

CKM_BLAKE2B_256_KEY_GEN

CKK_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC

2.34.2 BLAKE2B-256 digest

The BLAKE2B-256 mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_256, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Blake2b Algorithm with a 256-bit message digest without a key as defined in RFC 7693.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 143, BLAKE2B-256: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	32

2.34.3 General-length BLAKE2B-256-HMAC

The general-length BLAKE2B-256-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC_GENERAL, is the keyed variant of Blake2b-256 and length of the output should be in the range 1-32. The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-32 (the output size of BLAKE2B-256 is 32 bytes). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 32-byte HMAC output.

Table 144, General-length BLAKE2B-256-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret or CKK_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret or

CKK_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC

Any

1-32, depending on parameters

2.34.4 BLAKE2B-256-HMAC

The BLAKE2B-256-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length BLAKE2B-256-HMAC mechanism in Section 2.22.3.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 32.

2.34.5 BLAKE2B-256 key derivation

BLAKE2B-256 key derivation, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_256_KEY_DERIVE, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the BLAKE2B-256 hash function and the relevant length is 32 bytes.

2.34.6 BLAKE2B-256 HMAC key generation

The BLAKE2B-256-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_256_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for7 BLAKE2B-256-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates BLAKE2B-256-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the BLAKE2B-256-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_BLAKE2B_256_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.35 BLAKE2B-384

Table 145, BLAKE2B-384 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_BLAKE2B_384				ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_384_KEY_DERIVE							ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_384_KEY_GEN				ü

2.35.1 Definitions

CKM_BLAKE2B_384

CKM_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC

CKM_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_BLAKE2B_384_KEY_DERIVE

CKM_BLAKE2B_384_KEY_GEN

CKK_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC

2.35.2 BLAKE2B-384 digest

The BLAKE2B-384 mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_384, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Blake2b Algorithm with a 384-bit message digest without a key as defined in RFC 7693.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 146, BLAKE2B-384: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	48

2.35.3 General-length BLAKE2B-384-HMAC

The general-length BLAKE2B-384-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC_GENERAL, is the keyed variant of the Blake2b-384 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-48.The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-48 (the output size of BLAKE2B-384 is 48 bytes). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 48-byte HMAC output.

Table 147, General-length BLAKE2B-384-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function

Key type

Data length

Signature length

C_Sign

generic secret or

CKK_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC

Any

1-48, depending on parameters

C_Verify

generic secret or

CKK_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC

Any

1-48, depending on parameters

2.35.4 BLAKE2B-384-HMAC

The BLAKE2B-384-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length BLAKE2B-384-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 48.

2.35.5 BLAKE2B-384 key derivation

BLAKE2B-384 key derivation, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_384_KEY_DERIVE, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section 2.20.5, except that it uses the SHA-384 hash function and the relevant length is 48 bytes.

2.35.6 BLAKE2B-384 HMAC key generation

The BLAKE2B-384-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_384_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s BLAKE2B-384-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates BLAKE2B-384-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the BLAKE2B-384-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_BLAKE2B_384_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.36 BLAKE2B-512

Table 148, SHA-512 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_BLAKE2B_512				ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC		ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_512_KEY_DERIVE							ü
CKM_BLAKE2B_512_KEY_GEN				ü

2.36.1 Definitions

CKM_BLAKE2B_512

CKM_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC

CKM_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC_GENERAL

CKM_BLAKE2B_512_KEY_DERIVE

CKM_BLAKE2B_512_KEY_GEN

CKK_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC

2.36.2 BLAKE2B-512 digest

The BLAKE2B-512 mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_512, is a mechanism for message digesting, following the Blake2b Algorithm with a 512-bit message digest defined in RFC 7693.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 149, BLAKE2B-512: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	any	64

2.36.3 General-length BLAKE2B-512-HMAC

The general-length BLAKE2B-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC_GENERAL, is the keyed variant of the BLAKE2B-512 hash function and length of the output should be in the range 1-64.The keys it uses are generic secret keys and CKK_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which holds the length in bytes of the desired output. This length should be in the range 1-64 (the output size of BLAKE2B-512 is 64 bytes). Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism shall be taken from the start of the full 64-byte HMAC output.

Table 150, General-length BLAKE2B-512-HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	generic secret or CKK_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC	Any	1-64, depending on parameters
C_Verify	generic secret or CKK_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC	Any	1-64, depending on parameters

2.36.4 BLAKE2B-512-HMAC

The BLAKE2B-512-HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC, is a special case of the general-length BLAKE2B-512-HMAC mechanism.

It has no parameter, and always produces an output of length 64.

2.36.5 BLAKE2B-512 key derivation

BLAKE2B-512 key derivation, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_512_KEY_DERIVE, is the same as the SHA-1 key derivation mechanism in Section2.20.5, except that it uses the Blake2b-512 hash function and the relevant length is 64 bytes.

2.36.6 BLAKE2B-512 HMAC key generation

The BLAKE2B-512-HMAC key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_BLAKE2B_512_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for NIST’s BLAKE2B-512-HMAC.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates BLAKE2B-512-HMAC keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the BLAKE2B-512-HMAC key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of CKM_BLAKE2B_512_HMAC key sizes, in bytes.

2.37 PKCS #5 and PKCS #5-style password-based encryption (PBE)

The mechanisms in this section are for generating keys and IVs for performing password-based encryption. The method used to generate keys and IVs is specified in PKCS #5.

Table 151, PKCS 5 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_PBE_SHA1_DES3_EDE_CBC					ü
CKM_PBE_SHA1_DES2_EDE_CBC					ü
CKM_PBA_SHA1_WITH_SHA1_HMAC					ü
CKM_PKCS5_PBKD2					ü

2.37.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_PBE_SHA1_DES3_EDE_CBC

CKM_PBE_SHA1_DES2_EDE_CBC

CKM_PKCS5_PBKD2

CKM_PBA_SHA1_WITH_SHA1_HMAC

2.37.2 Password-based encryption/authentication mechanism parameters

¨ CK_PBE_PARAMS; CK_PBE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_PBE_PARAMS is a structure which provides all of the necessary information required by the CKM_PBE mechanisms (see PKCS #5 and PKCS #12 for information on the PBE generation mechanisms) and the CKM_PBA_SHA1_WITH_SHA1_HMAC mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_PBE_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pInitVector;

CK_UTF8CHAR_PTR pPassword;

CK_ULONG ulPasswordLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSalt;

CK_ULONG ulSaltLen;

CK_ULONG ulIteration;

} CK_PBE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pInitVector pointer to the location that receives the 8-byte initialization vector (IV), if an IV is required;

pPassword points to the password to be used in the PBE key generation;

ulPasswordLen length in bytes of the password information;

pSalt points to the salt to be used in the PBE key generation;

ulSaltLen length in bytes of the salt information;

ulIteration number of iterations required for the generation.

CK_PBE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_PBE_PARAMS.

2.37.3 PKCS #5 PBKDF2 key generation mechanism parameters

¨ CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PSEUDO_RANDOM_FUNCTION_TYPE; CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PSEUDO_RANDOM_FUNCTION_TYPE_PTR

CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PSEUDO_RANDOM_FUNCTION_TYPE is used to indicate the Pseudo-Random Function (PRF) used to generate key bits using PKCS #5 PBKDF2. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PSEUDO_RANDOM_FUNCTION_TYPE;

The following PRFs are defined in PKCS #5 v2.1. The following table lists the defined functions.

Table 152, PKCS #5 PBKDF2 Key Generation: Pseudo-random functions

PRF Identifier	Value	Parameter Type
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_SHA1	0x00000001UL	No Parameter. pPrfData must be NULL and ulPrfDataLen must be zero.
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_GOSTR3411	0x00000002UL	This PRF uses GOST R34.11-94 hash to produce secret key value. pPrfData should point to DER-encoded OID, indicating GOSTR34.11-94 parameters. ulPrfDataLen holds encoded OID length in bytes. If pPrfData is set to NULL_PTR, then id-GostR3411-94-CryptoProParamSet parameters will be used (RFC 4357, 11.2), and ulPrfDataLen must be 0.
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_SHA224	0x00000003UL	No Parameter. pPrfData must be NULL and ulPrfDataLen must be zero.
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_SHA256	0x00000004UL	No Parameter. pPrfData must be NULL and ulPrfDataLen must be zero.
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_SHA384	0x00000005UL	No Parameter. pPrfData must be NULL and ulPrfDataLen must be zero.
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_SHA512	0x00000006UL	No Parameter. pPrfData must be NULL and ulPrfDataLen must be zero.
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_SHA512_224	0x00000007UL	No Parameter. pPrfData must be NULL and ulPrfDataLen must be zero.
CKP_PKCS5_PBKD2_HMAC_SHA512_256	0x00000008UL	No Parameter. pPrfData must be NULL and ulPrfDataLen must be zero.

CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PSEUDO_RANDOM_FUNCTION_TYPE_PTR is a pointer to a CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PSEUDO_RANDOM_FUNCTION_TYPE.

¨ CK_PKCS5_PBKDF2_SALT_SOURCE_TYPE; CK_PKCS5_PBKDF2_SALT_SOURCE_TYPE_PTR

CK_PKCS5_PBKDF2_SALT_SOURCE_TYPE is used to indicate the source of the salt value when deriving a key using PKCS #5 PBKDF2. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_PKCS5_PBKDF2_SALT_SOURCE_TYPE;

The following salt value sources are defined in PKCS #5 v2.1. The following table lists the defined sources along with the corresponding data type for the pSaltSourceData field in the CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2 structure defined below.

Table 153, PKCS #5 PBKDF2 Key Generation: Salt sources

Source Identifier	Value	Data Type
CKZ_SALT_SPECIFIED	0x00000001	Array of CK_BYTE containing the value of the salt value.

CK_PKCS5_PBKDF2_SALT_SOURCE_TYPE_PTR is a pointer to a CK_PKCS5_PBKDF2_SALT_SOURCE_TYPE.

¨ CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2; CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2_PTR

CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2 is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_PKCS5_PBKD2 mechanism. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2 {

CK_PKCS5_PBKDF2_SALT_SOURCE_TYPE saltSource;

CK_VOID_PTR pSaltSourceData;

CK_ULONG ulSaltSourceDataLen;

CK_ULONG iterations;

CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PSEUDO_RANDOM_FUNCTION_TYPE prf;

CK_VOID_PTR pPrfData;

CK_ULONG ulPrfDataLen;

CK_UTF8CHAR_PTR pPassword;

CK_ULONG ulPasswordLen;

} CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

saltSource source of the salt value

pSaltSourceData data used as the input for the salt source

ulSaltSourceDataLen length of the salt source input

iterations number of iterations to perform when generating each block of random data

prf pseudo-random function used to generate the key

pPrfData data used as the input for PRF in addition to the salt value

ulPrfDataLen length of the input data for the PRF

pPassword points to the password to be used in the PBE key generation

ulPasswordLen length in bytes of the password information

CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2_PTR is a pointer to a CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2.

2.37.4 PKCS #5 PBKD2 key generation

PKCS #5 PBKDF2 key generation, denoted CKM_PKCS5_PBKD2, is a mechanism used for generating a secret key from a password and a salt value. This functionality is defined in PKCS#5 as PBKDF2.

It has a parameter, a CK_PKCS5_PBKD2_PARAMS2 structure. The parameter specifies the salt value source, pseudo-random function, and iteration count used to generate the new key.

Since this mechanism can be used to generate any type of secret key, new key templates must contain the CKA_KEY_TYPE and CKA_VALUE_LEN attributes. If the key type has a fixed length the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute may be omitted.

2.38 PKCS #12 password-based encryption/authentication mechanisms

The mechanisms in this section are for generating keys and IVs for performing password-based encryption or authentication. The method used to generate keys and IVs is based on a method that was specified in PKCS #12.

We specify here a general method for producing various types of pseudo-random bits from a password, p; a string of salt bits, s; and an iteration count, c. The “type” of pseudo-random bits to be produced is identified by an identification byte, ID, the meaning of which will be discussed later.

Let H be a hash function built around a compression function f: Z₂^u´ Z₂^v ® Z₂^u (that is, H has a chaining variable and output of length u bits, and the message input to the compression function of H is v bits). For MD2 and MD5, u=128 and v=512; for SHA-1, u=160 and v=512.

We assume here that u and v are both multiples of 8, as are the lengths in bits of the password and salt strings and the number n of pseudo-random bits required. In addition, u and v are of course nonzero.

1. Construct a string, D (the “diversifier”), by concatenating v/8 copies of ID.

2. Concatenate copies of the salt together to create a string S of length v×és/vù bits (the final copy of the salt may be truncated to create S). Note that if the salt is the empty string, then so is S.

3. Concatenate copies of the password together to create a string P of length v×ép/vù bits (the final copy of the password may be truncated to create P). Note that if the password is the empty string, then so is P.

4. Set I=S||P to be the concatenation of S and P.

5. Set j=én/uù.

6. For i=1, 2, …, j, do the following:

a. Set A_i=H^c(D||I), the c^th hash of D||I. That is, compute the hash of D||I; compute the hash of that hash; etc.; continue in this fashion until a total of c hashes have been computed, each on the result of the previous hash.

b. Concatenate copies of A_i to create a string B of length v bits (the final copy of A_i may be truncated to create B).

c. Treating I as a concatenation I₀, I₁, …, I_k_-1 of v-bit blocks, where k=és/vù+ép/vù, modify I by setting I_j=(I_j+B+1) mod 2^v for each j. To perform this addition, treat each v-bit block as a binary number represented most-significant bit first.

7. Concatenate A₁, A₂, …, A_j together to form a pseudo-random bit string, A.

8. Use the first n bits of A as the output of this entire process.

When the password-based encryption mechanisms presented in this section are used to generate a key and IV (if needed) from a password, salt, and an iteration count, the above algorithm is used. To generate a key, the identifier byte ID is set to the value 1; to generate an IV, the identifier byte ID is set to the value 2.

When the password based authentication mechanism presented in this section is used to generate a key from a password, salt, and an iteration count, the above algorithm is used. The identifier byte ID is set to the value 3.

2.38.1 SHA-1-PBE for 3-key triple-DES-CBC

SHA-1-PBE for 3-key triple-DES-CBC, denoted CKM_PBE_SHA1_DES3_EDE_CBC, is a mechanism used for generating a 3-key triple-DES secret key and IV from a password and a salt value by using the SHA-1 digest algorithm and an iteration count. The method used to generate the key and IV is described above. Each byte of the key produced will have its low-order bit adjusted, if necessary, so that a valid 3-key triple-DES key with proper parity bits is obtained.

It has a parameter, a CK_PBE_PARAMS structure. The parameter specifies the input information for the key generation process and the location of the application-supplied buffer which will receive the 8-byte IV generated by the mechanism.

The key and IV produced by this mechanism will typically be used for performing password-based encryption.

2.38.2 SHA-1-PBE for 2-key triple-DES-CBC

SHA-1-PBE for 2-key triple-DES-CBC, denoted CKM_PBE_SHA1_DES2_EDE_CBC, is a mechanism used for generating a 2-key triple-DES secret key and IV from a password and a salt value by using the SHA-1 digest algorithm and an iteration count. The method used to generate the key and IV is described above. Each byte of the key produced will have its low-order bit adjusted, if necessary, so that a valid 2-key triple-DES key with proper parity bits is obtained.

The key and IV produced by this mechanism will typically be used for performing password-based encryption.

2.38.3 SHA-1-PBA for SHA-1-HMAC

SHA-1-PBA for SHA-1-HMAC, denoted CKM_PBA_SHA1_WITH_SHA1_HMAC, is a mechanism used for generating a 160-bit generic secret key from a password and a salt value by using the SHA-1 digest algorithm and an iteration count. The method used to generate the key is described above.

It has a parameter, a CK_PBE_PARAMS structure. The parameter specifies the input information for the key generation process. The parameter also has a field to hold the location of an application-supplied buffer which will receive an IV; for this mechanism, the contents of this field are ignored, since authentication with SHA-1-HMAC does not require an IV.

The key generated by this mechanism will typically be used for computing a SHA-1 HMAC to perform password-based authentication (not password-based encryption). At the time of this writing, this is primarily done to ensure the integrity of a PKCS #12 PDU.

2.39 SSL

Table 154,SSL Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SSL3_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_TLS_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE							ü
CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH							ü
CKM_SSL3_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE							ü
CKM_SSL3_MD5_MAC		ü
CKM_SSL3_SHA1_MAC		ü

2.39.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_SSL3_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN

CKM_TLS_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN

CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE

CKM_SSL3_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE

CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH

CKM_SSL3_MD5_MAC

CKM_SSL3_SHA1_MAC

2.39.2 SSL mechanism parameters

¨ CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA

CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA is a structure which provides information about the random data of a client and a server in an SSL context. This structure is used by both the CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE and the CKM_SSL3_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanisms. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA {

CK_BYTE_PTR pClientRandom;

CK_ULONG ulClientRandomLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pServerRandom;

CK_ULONG ulServerRandomLen;

} CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pClientRandom pointer to the client’s random data

ulClientRandomLen length in bytes of the client’s random data

pServerRandom pointer to the server’s random data

ulServerRandomLen length in bytes of the server’s random data

¨ CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS; CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA RandomInfo;

CK_VERSION_PTR pVersion;

} CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

RandomInfo client’s and server’s random data information.

pVersion pointer to a CK_VERSION structure which receives the SSL protocol version information

CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS.

¨ CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT; CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT_PTR

CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT is a structure that contains the resulting key handles and initialization vectors after performing a C_DeriveKey function with the CKM_SSL3_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT {

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hClientMacSecret;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hServerMacSecret;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hClientKey;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hServerKey;

CK_BYTE_PTR pIVClient;

CK_BYTE_PTR pIVServer;

} CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

hClientMacSecret key handle for the resulting Client MAC Secret key

hServerMacSecret key handle for the resulting Server MAC Secret key

hClientKey key handle for the resulting Client Secret key

hServerKey key handle for the resulting Server Secret key

pIVClient pointer to a location which receives the initialization vector (IV) created for the client (if any)

pIVServer pointer to a location which receives the initialization vector (IV) created for the server (if any)

CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT_PTR is a pointer to a CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT.

¨ CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS; CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS_PTR

CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_SSL3_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulMacSizeInBits;

CK_ULONG ulKeySizeInBits;

CK_ULONG ulIVSizeInBits;

CK_BBOOL bIsExport;

CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA RandomInfo;

CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT_PTR pReturnedKeyMaterial;

} CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

ulMacSizeInBits the length (in bits) of the MACing keys agreed upon during the protocol handshake phase

ulKeySizeInBits the length (in bits) of the secret keys agreed upon during the protocol handshake phase

ulIVSizeInBits the length (in bits) of the IV agreed upon during the protocol handshake phase. If no IV is required, the length should be set to 0

bIsExport a Boolean value which indicates whether the keys have to be derived for an export version of the protocol

RandomInfo client’s and server’s random data information.

pReturnedKeyMaterial points to a CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT structures which receives the handles for the keys generated and the IVs

CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS.

2.39.3 Pre-master key generation

Pre-master key generation in SSL 3.0, denoted CKM_SSL3_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN, is a mechanism which generates a 48-byte generic secret key. It is used to produce the "pre_master" key used in SSL version 3.0 for RSA-like cipher suites.

It has one parameter, a CK_VERSION structure, which provides the client’s SSL version number.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key (as well as the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute, if it is not supplied in the template). Other attributes may be specified in the template, or else are assigned default values.

The template sent along with this mechanism during a C_GenerateKey call may indicate that the object class is CKO_SECRET_KEY, the key type is CKK_GENERIC_SECRET, and the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute has value 48. However, since these facts are all implicit in the mechanism, there is no need to specify any of them.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure both indicate 48 bytes.

CKM_TLS_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN has identical functionality as CKM_SSL3_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN. It exists only for historical reasons, please use CKM_SSL3_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN instead.

2.39.4 Master key derivation

Master key derivation in SSL 3.0, denoted CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE, is a mechanism used to derive one 48-byte generic secret key from another 48-byte generic secret key. It is used to produce the "master_secret" key used in the SSL protocol from the "pre_master" key. This mechanism returns the value of the client version, which is built into the "pre_master" key as well as a handle to the derived "master_secret" key.

It has a parameter, a CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS structure, which allows for the passing of random data to the token as well as the returning of the protocol version number which is part of the pre-master key. This structure is defined in Section 2.39.

The template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey call may indicate that the object class is CKO_SECRET_KEY, the key type is CKK_GENERIC_SECRET, and the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute has value 48. However, since these facts are all implicit in the mechanism, there is no need to specify any of them.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure both indicate 48 bytes.

Note that the CK_VERSION structure pointed to by the CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS structure’s pVersion field will be modified by the C_DeriveKey call. In particular, when the call returns, this structure will hold the SSL version associated with the supplied pre_master key.

Note that this mechanism is only useable for cipher suites that use a 48-byte “pre_master” secret with an embedded version number. This includes the RSA cipher suites, but excludes the Diffie-Hellman cipher suites.

2.39.5 Master key derivation for Diffie-Hellman

Master key derivation for Diffie-Hellman in SSL 3.0, denoted CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH, is a mechanism used to derive one 48-byte generic secret key from another arbitrary length generic secret key. It is used to produce the "master_secret" key used in the SSL protocol from the "pre_master" key.

It has a parameter, a CK_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS structure, which allows for the passing of random data to the token. This structure is defined in Section 2.39. The pVersion field of the structure must be set to NULL_PTR since the version number is not embedded in the "pre_master" key as it is for RSA-like cipher suites.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure both indicate 48 bytes.

Note that this mechanism is only useable for cipher suites that do not use a fixed length 48-byte “pre_master” secret with an embedded version number. This includes the Diffie-Hellman cipher suites, but excludes the RSA cipher suites.

2.39.6 Key and MAC derivation

Key, MAC and IV derivation in SSL 3.0, denoted CKM_SSL3_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, is a mechanism used to derive the appropriate cryptographic keying material used by a "CipherSuite" from the "master_secret" key and random data. This mechanism returns the key handles for the keys generated in the process, as well as the IVs created.

It has a parameter, a CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS structure, which allows for the passing of random data as well as the characteristic of the cryptographic material for the given CipherSuite and a pointer to a structure which receives the handles and IVs which were generated. This structure is defined in Section 2.39.

This mechanism contributes to the creation of four distinct keys on the token and returns two IVs (if IVs are requested by the caller) back to the caller. The keys are all given an object class of CKO_SECRET_KEY.

The two MACing keys ("client_write_MAC_secret" and "server_write_MAC_secret") are always given a type of CKK_GENERIC_SECRET. They are flagged as valid for signing, verification, and derivation operations.

The other two keys ("client_write_key" and "server_write_key") are typed according to information found in the template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey function call. By default, they are flagged as valid for encryption, decryption, and derivation operations.

IVs will be generated and returned if the ulIVSizeInBits field of the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS field has a nonzero value. If they are generated, their length in bits will agree with the value in the ulIVSizeInBits field.

All four keys inherit the values of the CKA_SENSITIVE, CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE, CKA_EXTRACTABLE, and CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attributes from the base key. The template provided to C_DeriveKey may not specify values for any of these attributes which differ from those held by the base key.

Note that the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT structure pointed to by the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS structure’s pReturnedKeyMaterial field will be modified by the C_DeriveKey call. In particular, the four key handle fields in the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT structure will be modified to hold handles to the newly-created keys; in addition, the buffers pointed to by the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT structure’s pIVClient and pIVServer fields will have IVs returned in them (if IVs are requested by the caller). Therefore, these two fields must point to buffers with sufficient space to hold any IVs that will be returned.

This mechanism departs from the other key derivation mechanisms in Cryptoki in its returned information. For most key-derivation mechanisms, C_DeriveKey returns a single key handle as a result of a successful completion. However, since the CKM_SSL3_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanism returns all of its key handles in the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT structure pointed to by the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS structure specified as the mechanism parameter, the parameter phKey passed to C_DeriveKey is unnecessary, and should be a NULL_PTR.

If a call to C_DeriveKey with this mechanism fails, then none of the four keys will be created on the token.

2.39.7 MD5 MACing in SSL 3.0

MD5 MACing in SSL3.0, denoted CKM_SSL3_MD5_MAC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures (data authentication) and verification using MD5, based on the SSL 3.0 protocol. This technique is very similar to the HMAC technique.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which specifies the length in bytes of the signatures produced by this mechanism.

Constraints on key types and the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table:

Table 155, MD5 MACing in SSL 3.0: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	generic secret	any	4-8, depending on parameters
C_Verify	generic secret	any	4-8, depending on parameters

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of generic secret key sizes, in bits.

2.39.8 SHA-1 MACing in SSL 3.0

SHA-1 MACing in SSL3.0, denoted CKM_SSL3_SHA1_MAC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures (data authentication) and verification using SHA-1, based on the SSL 3.0 protocol. This technique is very similar to the HMAC technique.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS, which specifies the length in bytes of the signatures produced by this mechanism.

Constraints on key types and the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table:

Table 156, SHA-1 MACing in SSL 3.0: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	generic secret	any	4-8, depending on parameters
C_Verify	generic secret	any	4-8, depending on parameters

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of generic secret key sizes, in bits.

2.40 TLS 1.2 Mechanisms

Details for TLS 1.2 and its key derivation and MAC mechanisms can be found in [TLS12]. TLS 1.2 mechanisms differ from TLS 1.0 and 1.1 mechanisms in that the base hash used in the underlying TLS PRF (pseudo-random function) can be negotiated. Therefore each mechanism parameter for the TLS 1.2 mechanisms contains a new value in the parameters structure to specify the hash function.

This section also specifies CKM_TLS12_MAC which should be used in place of CKM_TLS_PRF to calculate the verify_data in the TLS "finished" message.

This section also specifies CKM_TLS_KDF that can be used in place of CKM_TLS_PRF to implement key material exporters.

Table 157, TLS 1.2 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE							ü
CKM_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH							ü
CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE							ü
CKM_TLS12_KEY_SAFE_DERIVE							ü
CKM_TLS_KDF							ü
CKM_TLS12_MAC		ü
CKM_TLS12_KDF							ü

2.40.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE

CKM_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH

CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE

CKM_TLS12_KEY_SAFE_DERIVE

CKM_TLS_KDF

CKM_TLS12_MAC

CKM_TLS12_KDF

2.40.2 TLS 1.2 mechanism parameters

¨ CK_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS; CK_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR

CK_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA RandomInfo;

CK_VERSION_PTR pVersion;

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE prfHashMechanism;

} CK_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

RandomInfo client’s and server’s random data information.

pVersion pointer to a CK_VERSION structure which receives the SSL protocol version information

prfHashMechanism base hash used in the underlying TLS1.2 PRF operation used to derive the master key.

CK_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS.

¨ CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS; CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS_PTR

CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulMacSizeInBits;

CK_ULONG ulKeySizeInBits;

CK_ULONG ulIVSizeInBits;

CK_BBOOL bIsExport;

CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA RandomInfo;

CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT_PTR pReturnedKeyMaterial;

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE prfHashMechanism;

} CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

ulMacSizeInBits the length (in bits) of the MACing keys agreed upon during the protocol handshake phase. If no MAC key is required, the length should be set to 0.

ulKeySizeInBits the length (in bits) of the secret keys agreed upon during the protocol handshake phase

ulIVSizeInBits the length (in bits) of the IV agreed upon during the protocol handshake phase. If no IV is required, the length should be set to 0

bIsExport must be set to CK_FALSE because export cipher suites must not be used in TLS 1.1 and later.

RandomInfo client’s and server’s random data information.

pReturnedKeyMaterial points to a CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_OUT structures which receives the handles for the keys generated and the IVs

prfHashMechanism base hash used in the underlying TLS1.2 PRF operation used to derive the master key.

CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS.

¨ CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS; CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS_PTR

CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_TLS_KDF mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE prfMechanism;

CK_BYTE_PTR pLabel;

CK_ULONG ulLabelLength;

CK_SSL3_RANDOM_DATA RandomInfo;

CK_BYTE_PTR pContextData;

CK_ULONG ulContextDataLength;

} CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

prfMechanism the hash mechanism used in the TLS1.2 PRF construct or CKM_TLS_PRF to use with the TLS1.0 and 1.1 PRF construct.

pLabel a pointer to the label for this key derivation

ulLabelLength length of the label in bytes

RandomInfo the random data for the key derivation

pContextData a pointer to the context data for this key derivation. NULL_PTR if not present

ulContextDataLength length of the context data in bytes. 0 if not present.

CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS.

¨ CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS; CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS_PTR

CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_TLS_MAC mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE prfMechanism;

CK_ULONG ulMacLength;

CK_ULONG ulServerOrClient;

} CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

prfMechanism the hash mechanism used in the TLS12 PRF construct or CKM_TLS_PRF to use with the TLS1.0 and 1.1 PRF construct.

ulMacLength the length of the MAC tag required or offered. Always 12 octets in TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Generally 12 octets, but may be negotiated to a longer value in TLS1.2.

ulServerOrClient 1 to use the label "server finished", 2 to use the label "client finished". All other values are invalid.

CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS.

¨ CK_TLS_PRF_PARAMS; CK_TLS_PRF_PARAMS_PTR

CK_TLS_PRF_PARAMS is a structure, which provides the parameters to the CKM_TLS_PRF mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_TLS_PRF_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pSeed;

CK_ULONG ulSeedLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pLabel;

CK_ULONG ulLabelLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pOutput;

CK_ULONG_PTR pulOutputLen;

} CK_TLS_PRF_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pSeed pointer to the input seed

ulSeedLen length in bytes of the input seed

pLabel pointer to the identifying label

ulLabelLen length in bytes of the identifying label

pOutput pointer receiving the output of the operation

pulOutputLen pointer to the length in bytes that the output to be created shall have, has to hold the desired length as input and will receive the calculated length as output

CK_TLS_PRF_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_TLS_PRF_PARAMS.

2.40.3 TLS MAC

The TLS MAC mechanism is used to generate integrity tags for the TLS "finished" message. It replaces the use of the CKM_TLS_PRF function for TLS1.0 and 1.1 and that mechanism is deprecated.

CKM_TLS_MAC takes a parameter of CK_TLS_MAC_PARAMS. To use this mechanism with TLS1.0 and TLS1.1, use CKM_TLS_PRF as the value for prfMechanism in place of a hash mechanism. Note: Although CKM_TLS_PRF is deprecated as a mechanism for C_DeriveKey, the manifest value is retained for use with this mechanism to indicate the use of the TLS1.0/1.1 pseudo-random function.

In TLS1.0 and 1.1 the "finished" message verify_data (i.e. the output signature from the MAC mechanism) is always 12 bytes. In TLS1.2 the "finished" message verify_data is a minimum of 12 bytes, defaults to 12 bytes, but may be negotiated to longer length.

Table 158, General-length TLS MAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	generic secret	any	>=12 bytes
C_Verify	generic secret	any	>=12 bytes

2.40.4 Master key derivation

Master key derivation in TLS 1.0, denoted CKM_TLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE, is a mechanism used to derive one 48-byte generic secret key from another 48-byte generic secret key. It is used to produce the "master_secret" key used in the TLS protocol from the "pre_master" key. This mechanism returns the value of the client version, which is built into the "pre_master" key as well as a handle to the derived "master_secret" key.

The mechanism also contributes the CKA_ALLOWED_MECHANISMS attribute consisting only of CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, CKM_TLS12_KEY_SAFE_DERIVE, CKM_TLS12_KDF and CKM_TLS12_MAC.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure both indicate 48 bytes.

2.40.5 Master key derivation for Diffie-Hellman

Master key derivation for Diffie-Hellman in TLS 1.0, denoted CKM_TLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH, is a mechanism used to derive one 48-byte generic secret key from another arbitrary length generic secret key. It is used to produce the "master_secret" key used in the TLS protocol from the "pre_master" key.

The mechanism also contributes the CKA_ALLOWED_MECHANISMS attribute consisting only of CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, CKM_TLS12_KEY_SAFE_DERIVE, CKM_TLS12_KDF and CKM_TLS12_MAC.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure both indicate 48 bytes.

2.40.6 Key and MAC derivation

Key, MAC and IV derivation in TLS 1.0, denoted CKM_TLS_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, is a mechanism used to derive the appropriate cryptographic keying material used by a "CipherSuite" from the "master_secret" key and random data. This mechanism returns the key handles for the keys generated in the process, as well as the IVs created.

The two MACing keys ("client_write_MAC_secret" and "server_write_MAC_secret") (if present) are always given a type of CKK_GENERIC_SECRET. They are flagged as valid for signing and verification.

For CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, IVs will be generated and returned if the ulIVSizeInBits field of the CK_SSL3_KEY_MAT_PARAMS field has a nonzero value. If they are generated, their length in bits will agree with the value in the ulIVSizeInBits field.

Note Well: CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE produces both private (key) and public (IV) data. It is possible to "leak" private data by the simple expedient of decreasing the length of private data requested. E.g. Setting ulMacSizeInBits and ulKeySizeInBits to 0 (or other lengths less than the key size) will result in the private key data being placed in the destination designated for the IV's. Repeated calls with the same master key and same RandomInfo but with differing lengths for the private key material will result in different data being leaked.<

If a call to C_DeriveKey with this mechanism fails, then none of the four keys will be created on the token.

2.40.7 CKM_TLS12_KEY_SAFE_DERIVE

CKM_TLS12_KEY_SAFE_DERIVE is identical to CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE except that it shall never produce IV data, and the ulIvSizeInBits field of CK_TLS12_KEY_MAT_PARAMS is ignored and treated as 0. All of the other conditions and behavior described for CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, with the exception of the black box warning, apply to this mechanism.

CKM_TLS12_KEY_SAFE_DERIVE is provided as a separate mechanism to allow a client to control the export of IV material (and possible leaking of key material) through the use of the CKA_ALLOWED_MECHANISMS key attribute.

2.40.8 Generic Key Derivation using the TLS PRF

CKM_TLS_KDF is the mechanism defined in [RFC 5705]. It uses the TLS key material and TLS PRF function to produce additional key material for protocols that want to leverage the TLS key negotiation mechanism. CKM_TLS_KDF has a parameter of CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS. If the protocol using this mechanism does not use context information, the pContextData field shall be set to NULL_PTR and the ulContextDataLength field shall be set to 0.

To use this mechanism with TLS1.0 and TLS1.1, use CKM_TLS_PRF as the value for prfMechanism in place of a hash mechanism. Note: Although CKM_TLS_PRF is deprecated as a mechanism for C_DeriveKey, the manifest value is retained for use with this mechanism to indicate the use of the TLS1.0/1.1 Pseudo-random function.

This mechanism can be used to derive multiple keys (e.g. similar to CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE) by first deriving the key stream as a CKK_GENERIC_SECRET of the necessary length and doing subsequent derives against that derived key using the CKM_EXTRACT_KEY_FROM_KEY mechanism to split the key stream into the actual operational keys.

The mechanism should not be used with the labels defined for use with TLS, but the token does not enforce this behavior.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· If the original key has its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE, so does the derived key. If not, then the derived key’s CKA_SENSITIVE attribute is set either from the supplied template or from the original key.

· Similarly, if the original key has its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE, so does the derived key. If not, then the derived key’s CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set either from the supplied template or from the original key.

· The derived key’s CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the original key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

· Similarly, the derived key’s CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the original key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

2.40.9 Generic Key Derivation using the TLS12 PRF

CKM_TLS12_KDF is the mechanism defined in [RFC 5705]. It uses the TLS key material and TLS PRF function to produce additional key material for protocols that want to leverage the TLS key negotiation mechanism. CKM_TLS12_KDF has a parameter of CK_TLS_KDF_PARAMS. If the protocol using this mechanism does not use context information, the pContextData field shall be set to NULL_PTR and the ulContextDataLength field shall be set to 0.

This mechanism can be used to derive multiple keys (e.g. similar to CKM_TLS12_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE) by first deriving the key stream as a CKK_GENERIC_SECRET of the necessary length and doing subsequent derives against that derived key stream using the CKM_EXTRACT_KEY_FROM_KEY mechanism to split the key stream into the actual operational keys.

The mechanism should not be used with the labels defined for use with TLS, but the token does not enforce this behavior.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· The derived key’s CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the original key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

· Similarly, the derived key’s CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the original key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

2.41 WTLS

Details can be found in [WTLS].

When comparing the existing TLS mechanisms with these extensions to support WTLS one could argue that there would be no need to have distinct handling of the client and server side of the handshake. However, since in WTLS the server and client use different sequence numbers, there could be instances (e.g. when WTLS is used to protect asynchronous protocols) where sequence numbers on the client and server side differ, and hence this motivates the introduced split.

Table 159, WTLS Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_WTLS_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE							ü
CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH_ECC							ü
CKM_WTLS_SERVER_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE							ü
CKM_WTLS_CLIENT_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE							ü
CKM_WTLS_PRF							ü

2.41.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_WTLS_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN

CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE

CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH_ECC

CKM_WTLS_PRF

CKM_WTLS_SERVER_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE

CKM_WTLS_CLIENT_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE

2.41.2 WTLS mechanism parameters

¨ CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA; CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA_PTR

CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA is a structure, which provides information about the random data of a client and a server in a WTLS context. This structure is used by the CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA {

CK_BYTE_PTR pClientRandom;

CK_ULONG ulClientRandomLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pServerRandom;

CK_ULONG ulServerRandomLen;

} CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pClientRandom pointer to the client’s random data

pClientRandomLen length in bytes of the client’s random data

pServerRaondom pointer to the server’s random data

ulServerRandomLen length in bytes of the server’s random data

CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA_PTR is a pointer to a CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA.

¨ CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS; CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS _PTR

CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure, which provides the parameters to the CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE DigestMechanism;

CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA RandomInfo;

CK_BYTE_PTR pVersion;

} CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

DigestMechanism the mechanism type of the digest mechanism to be used (possible types can be found in [WTLS])

RandomInfo Client’s and server’s random data information

pVersion pointer to a CK_BYTE which receives the WTLS protocol version information

CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS.

¨ CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS; CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS_PTR

CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS is a structure, which provides the parameters to the CKM_WTLS_PRF mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE DigestMechanism;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSeed;

CK_ULONG ulSeedLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pLabel;

CK_ULONG ulLabelLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pOutput;

CK_ULONG_PTR pulOutputLen;

} CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

Digest Mechanism the mechanism type of the digest mechanism to be used (possible types can be found in [WTLS])

pSeed pointer to the input seed

ulSeedLen length in bytes of the input seed

pLabel pointer to the identifying label

ulLabelLen length in bytes of the identifying label

pOutput pointer receiving the output of the operation

pulOutputLen pointer to the length in bytes that the output to be created shall have, has to hold the desired length as input and will receive the calculated length as output

CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS.

¨ CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT; CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT_PTR

CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT is a structure that contains the resulting key handles and initialization vectors after performing a C_DeriveKey function with the CKM_WTLS_SERVER_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE or with the CKM_WTLS_CLIENT_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT {

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hMacSecret;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hKey;

CK_BYTE_PTR pIV;

} CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

hMacSecret Key handle for the resulting MAC secret key

hKey Key handle for the resulting secret key

pIV Pointer to a location which receives the initialization vector (IV) created (if any)

CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT _PTR is a pointer to a CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT.

¨ CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS; CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS_PTR

CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_WTLS_SERVER_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE and the CKM_WTLS_CLIENT_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanisms. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE DigestMechanism;

CK_ULONG ulMacSizeInBits;

CK_ULONG ulKeySizeInBits;

CK_ULONG ulIVSizeInBits;

CK_ULONG ulSequenceNumber;

CK_BBOOL bIsExport;

CK_WTLS_RANDOM_DATA RandomInfo;

CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT_PTR pReturnedKeyMaterial;

} CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

Digest Mechanism the mechanism type of the digest mechanism to be used (possible types can be found in [WTLS])

ulMaxSizeInBits the length (in bits) of the MACing key agreed upon during the protocol handshake phase

ulKeySizeInBits the length (in bits) of the secret key agreed upon during the handshake phase

ulIVSizeInBits the length (in bits) of the IV agreed upon during the handshake phase. If no IV is required, the length should be set to 0.

ulSequenceNumber the current sequence number used for records sent by the client and server respectively

bIsExport a boolean value which indicates whether the keys have to be derives for an export version of the protocol. If this value is true (i.e., the keys are exportable) then ulKeySizeInBits is the length of the key in bits before expansion. The length of the key after expansion is determined by the information found in the template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey function call (either the CKA_KEY_TYPE or the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute).

RandomInfo client’s and server’s random data information

pReturnedKeyMaterial points to a CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT structure which receives the handles for the keys generated and the IV

CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS.

2.41.3 Pre master secret key generation for RSA key exchange suite

Pre master secret key generation for the RSA key exchange suite in WTLS denoted CKM_WTLS_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN, is a mechanism, which generates a variable length secret key. It is used to produce the pre master secret key for RSA key exchange suite used in WTLS. This mechanism returns a handle to the pre master secret key.

It has one parameter, a CK_BYTE, which provides the client’s WTLS version.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key (as well as the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute, if it is not supplied in the template). Other attributes may be specified in the template, or else are assigned default values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize field of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure shall indicate 20 bytes.

2.41.4 Master secret key derivation

Master secret derivation in WTLS, denoted CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE, is a mechanism used to derive a 20 byte generic secret key from variable length secret key. It is used to produce the master secret key used in WTLS from the pre master secret key. This mechanism returns the value of the client version, which is built into the pre master secret key as well as a handle to the derived master secret key.

It has a parameter, a CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS structure, which allows for passing the mechanism type of the digest mechanism to be used as well as the passing of random data to the token as well as the returning of the protocol version number which is part of the pre master secret key.

The template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey call may indicate that the object class is CKO_SECRET_KEY, the key type is CKK_GENERIC_SECRET, and the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute has value 20. However, since these facts are all implicit in the mechanism, there is no need to specify any of them.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

The CKA_SENSITIVE and CKA_EXTRACTABLE attributes in the template for the new key can both be specified to be either CK_TRUE or CK_FALSE. If omitted, these attributes each take on some default value.

If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key will as well. If the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to the same value as its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute.

Similarly, if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE, then the derived key will, too. If the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE, then the derived key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to the opposite value from its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure both indicate 20 bytes.

Note that the CK_BYTE pointed to by the CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS structure’s pVersion field will be modified by the C_DeriveKey call. In particular, when the call returns, this byte will hold the WTLS version associated with the supplied pre master secret key.

Note that this mechanism is only useable for key exchange suites that use a 20-byte pre master secret key with an embedded version number. This includes the RSA key exchange suites, but excludes the Diffie-Hellman and Elliptic Curve Cryptography key exchange suites.

2.41.5 Master secret key derivation for Diffie-Hellman and Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Master secret derivation for Diffie-Hellman and Elliptic Curve Cryptography in WTLS, denoted CKM_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_DH_ECC, is a mechanism used to derive a 20 byte generic secret key from variable length secret key. It is used to produce the master secret key used in WTLS from the pre master secret key. This mechanism returns a handle to the derived master secret key.

It has a parameter, a CK_WTLS_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE_PARAMS structure, which allows for the passing of the mechanism type of the digest mechanism to be used as well as random data to the token. The pVersion field of the structure must be set to NULL_PTR since the version number is not embedded in the pre master secret key as it is for RSA-like key exchange suites.

The template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey call may indicate that the object class is CKO_SECRET_KEY, the key type is CKK_GENERIC_SECRET, and the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute has value 20. However, since these facts are all implicit in the mechanism, there is no need to specify any of them.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure both indicate 20 bytes.

Note that this mechanism is only useable for key exchange suites that do not use a fixed length 20-byte pre master secret key with an embedded version number. This includes the Diffie-Hellman and Elliptic Curve Cryptography key exchange suites, but excludes the RSA key exchange suites.

2.41.6 WTLS PRF (pseudorandom function)

PRF (pseudo random function) in WTLS, denoted CKM_WTLS_PRF, is a mechanism used to produce a securely generated pseudo-random output of arbitrary length. The keys it uses are generic secret keys.

It has a parameter, a CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS structure, which allows for passing the mechanism type of the digest mechanism to be used, the passing of the input seed and its length, the passing of an identifying label and its length and the passing of the length of the output to the token and for receiving the output.

This mechanism produces securely generated pseudo-random output of the length specified in the parameter.

This mechanism departs from the other key derivation mechanisms in Cryptoki in not using the template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey function call, which means the template shall be a NULL_PTR. For most key-derivation mechanisms, C_DeriveKey returns a single key handle as a result of a successful completion. However, since the CKM_WTLS_PRF mechanism returns the requested number of output bytes in the CK_WTLS_PRF_PARAMS structure specified as the mechanism parameter, the parameter phKey passed to C_DeriveKey is unnecessary, and should be a NULL_PTR.

If a call to C_DeriveKey with this mechanism fails, then no output will be generated.

2.41.7 Server Key and MAC derivation

Server key, MAC and IV derivation in WTLS, denoted CKM_WTLS_SERVER_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, is a mechanism used to derive the appropriate cryptographic keying material used by a cipher suite from the master secret key and random data. This mechanism returns the key handles for the keys generated in the process, as well as the IV created.

It has a parameter, a CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS structure, which allows for the passing of the mechanism type of the digest mechanism to be used, random data, the characteristic of the cryptographic material for the given cipher suite, and a pointer to a structure which receives the handles and IV which were generated.

This mechanism contributes to the creation of two distinct keys and returns one IV (if an IV is requested by the caller) back to the caller. The keys are all given an object class of CKO_SECRET_KEY.

The MACing key (server write MAC secret) is always given a type of CKK_GENERIC_SECRET. It is flagged as valid for signing, verification and derivation operations.

The other key (server write key) is typed according to information found in the template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey function call. By default, it is flagged as valid for encryption, decryption, and derivation operations.

An IV (server write IV) will be generated and returned if the ulIVSizeInBits field of the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS field has a nonzero value. If it is generated, its length in bits will agree with the value in the ulIVSizeInBits field

Both keys inherit the values of the CKA_SENSITIVE, CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE, CKA_EXTRACTABLE, and CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attributes from the base key. The template provided to C_DeriveKey may not specify values for any of these attributes that differ from those held by the base key.

Note that the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT structure pointed to by the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS structure’s pReturnedKeyMaterial field will be modified by the C_DeriveKey call. In particular, the two key handle fields in the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT structure will be modified to hold handles to the newly-created keys; in addition, the buffer pointed to by the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT structure’s pIV field will have the IV returned in them (if an IV is requested by the caller). Therefore, this field must point to a buffer with sufficient space to hold any IV that will be returned.

This mechanism departs from the other key derivation mechanisms in Cryptoki in its returned information. For most key-derivation mechanisms, C_DeriveKey returns a single key handle as a result of a successful completion. However, since the CKM_WTLS_SERVER_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanism returns all of its key handles in the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT structure pointed to by the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS structure specified as the mechanism parameter, the parameter phKey passed to C_DeriveKey is unnecessary, and should be a NULL_PTR.

If a call to C_DeriveKey with this mechanism fails, then none of the two keys will be created.

2.41.8 Client key and MAC derivation

Client key, MAC and IV derivation in WTLS, denoted CKM_WTLS_CLIENT_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE, is a mechanism used to derive the appropriate cryptographic keying material used by a cipher suite from the master secret key and random data. This mechanism returns the key handles for the keys generated in the process, as well as the IV created.

The MACing key (client write MAC secret) is always given a type of CKK_GENERIC_SECRET. It is flagged as valid for signing, verification and derivation operations.

The other key (client write key) is typed according to information found in the template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey function call. By default, it is flagged as valid for encryption, decryption, and derivation operations.

An IV (client write IV) will be generated and returned if the ulIVSizeInBits field of the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS field has a nonzero value. If it is generated, its length in bits will agree with the value in the ulIVSizeInBits field

This mechanism departs from the other key derivation mechanisms in Cryptoki in its returned information. For most key-derivation mechanisms, C_DeriveKey returns a single key handle as a result of a successful completion. However, since the CKM_WTLS_CLIENT_KEY_AND_MAC_DERIVE mechanism returns all of its key handles in the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_OUT structure pointed to by the CK_WTLS_KEY_MAT_PARAMS structure specified as the mechanism parameter, the parameter phKey passed to C_DeriveKey is unnecessary, and should be a NULL_PTR.

If a call to C_DeriveKey with this mechanism fails, then none of the two keys will be created.

2.42 SP 800-108 Key Derivation

NIST SP800-108 defines three types of key derivation functions (KDF); a Counter Mode KDF, a Feedback Mode KDF and a Double Pipeline Mode KDF.

This section defines a unique mechanism for each type of KDF. These mechanisms can be used to derive one or more symmetric keys from a single base symmetric key.

The KDFs defined in SP800-108 are all built upon pseudo random functions (PRF). In general terms, the PRFs accepts two pieces of input; a base key and some input data. The base key is taken from the hBaseKey parameter to C_Derive. The input data is constructed from an iteration variable (internally defined by the KDF/PRF) and the data provided in the CK_ PRF_DATA_PARAM array that is part of the mechanism parameter.

Table 160, SP800-108 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF							ü
CKM_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF							ü
CKM_SP800_108_DOUBLE_PIPELINE_KDF							ü

For these mechanisms, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the minimum and maximum supported base key size in bits. Note, these mechanisms support multiple PRF types and key types; as such the values reported by ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize specify the minimum and maximum supported base key size when all PRF and keys types are considered. For example, a Cryptoki implementation may support CKK_GENERIC_SECRET keys that can be as small as 8-bits in length and therefore ulMinKeySize could report 8-bits. However, for an AES-CMAC PRF the base key must be of type CKK_AES and must be either 16-bytes, 24-bytes or 32-bytes in lengths and therefore the value reported by ulMinKeySize could be misleading. Depending on the PRF type selected, additional key size restrictions may apply.

2.42.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF

CKM_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF

CKM_SP800_108_DOUBLE_PIPELINE_KDF

Data Field Types:

CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE

CK_SP800_108_COUNTER

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH

CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY

DKM Length Methods:

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_KEYS

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_SEGMENTS

2.42.2 Mechanism Parameters

¨ CK_SP800_108_PRF_TYPE

The CK_SP800_108_PRF_TYPE field of the mechanism parameter is used to specify the type of PRF that is to be used. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_MECHANISM_TYPE CK_SP800_108_PRF_TYPE;

The CK_SP800_108_PRF_TYPE field reuses the existing mechanisms definitions. The following table lists the supported PRF types:

Table 161, SP800-108 Pseudo Random Functions

Pseudo Random Function Identifiers

CKM_SHA_1_HMAC

CKM_SHA224_HMAC

CKM_SHA256_HMAC

CKM_SHA384_HMAC

CKM_SHA512_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_224_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_256_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_384_HMAC

CKM_SHA3_512_HMAC

CKM_DES3_CMAC

CKM_AES_CMAC

¨ CK_PRF_DATA_TYPE

Each mechanism parameter contains an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures. The CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structure contains CK_PRF_DATA_TYPE field. The CK_PRF_DATA_TYPE field is used to identify the type of data identified by each CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM element in the array. Depending on the type of KDF used, some data field types are mandatory, some data field types are optional and some data field types are not allowed. These requirements are defined on a per-mechanism basis in the sections below. The CK_PRF_DATA_TYPE is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_PRF_DATA_TYPE;

The following table lists all of the supported data field types:

Table 162, SP800-108 PRF Data Field Types

Data Field Identifier	Description
CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE	Identifies the iteration variable defined internally by the KDF.
CK_SP800_108_COUNTER	Identifies an optional counter value represented as a binary string. Exact formatting of the counter value is defined by the CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT structure. The value of the counter is defined by the KDF’s internal loop counter.
CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH	Identifies the length in bits of the derived keying material (DKM) represented as a binary string. Exact formatting of the length value is defined by the CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT structure.
CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY	Identifies a generic byte array of data. This data type can be used to provide “context”, “label”, “separator bytes” as well as any other type of encoding information required by the higher level protocol.

¨ CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM

CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM is used to define a segment of input for the PRF. Each mechanism parameter supports an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures. The CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM

{

CK_PRF_DATA_TYPE type;

CK_VOID_PTR pValue;

CK_ULONG ulValueLen;

} CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM;

typedef CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM CK_PTR CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM_PTR

The fields of the CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structure have the following meaning:

type defines the type of data pointed to by pValue

pValue pointer to the data defined by type

ulValueLen size of the data pointed to by pValue

If the type field of the CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structure is set to CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE, then pValue must be set the appropriate value for the KDF’s iteration variable type. For the Counter Mode KDF, pValue must be assigned a valid CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT_PTR and ulValueLen must be set to sizeof(CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT). For all other KDF types, pValue must be set to NULL_PTR and ulValueLen must be set to 0.

If the type field of the CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structure is set to CK_SP800_108_COUNTER, then pValue must be assigned a valid CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT_PTR and ulValueLen must be set to sizeof(CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT).

If the type field of the CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structure is set to CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH then pValue must be assigned a valid CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT_PTR and ulValueLen must be set to sizeof(CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT).

If the type field of the CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structure is set to CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, then pValue must be assigned a valid CK_BYTE_PTR value and ulValueLen must be set to a non-zero length.

¨ CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT

CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT is used to define the encoding format for a counter value. The CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT

{

CK_BBOOL bLittleEndian;

CK_ULONG ulWidthInBits;

} CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT;

typedef CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT CK_PTR CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT_PTR

The fields of the CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT structure have the following meaning:

bLittleEndian defines if the counter should be represented in Big Endian or Little Endian format

ulWidthInBits defines the number of bits used to represent the counter value

¨ CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_METHOD

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_METHOD is used to define how the DKM length value is calculated. The CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_METHOD type is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_METHOD;

The following table lists all of the supported DKM Length Methods:

Table 163, SP800-108 DKM Length Methods

DKM Length Method Identifier	Description
CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_KEYS	Specifies that the DKM length should be set to the sum of the length of all keys derived by this invocation of the KDF.
CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_SEGMENTS	Specifies that the DKM length should be set to the sum of the length of all segments of output produced by the PRF by this invocation of the KDF.

¨ CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT is used to define the encoding format for the DKM length value. The CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT

{

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_METHOD dkmLengthMethod;

CK_BBOOL bLittleEndian;

CK_ULONG ulWidthInBits;

} CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT;

typedef CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT CK_PTR CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT_PTR

The fields of the CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT structure have the following meaning:

dkmLengthMethod defines the method used to calculate the DKM length value

bLittleEndian defines if the DKM length value should be represented in Big Endian or Little Endian format

ulWidthInBits defines the number of bits used to represent the DKM length value

¨ CK_DERIVED_KEY

CK_DERIVED_KEY is used to define an additional key to be derived as well as provide a CK_OBJECT_HANDLE_PTR to receive the handle for the derived keys. The CK_DERIVED_KEY is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_DERIVED_KEY

{

CK_ATTRIBUTE_PTR pTemplate;

CK_ULONG ulAttributeCount;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE_PTR phKey;

} CK_DERIVED_KEY;

typedef CK_DERIVED_KEY CK_PTR CK_DERIVED_KEY_PTR

The fields of the CK_DERIVED_KEY structure have the following meaning:

pTemplate pointer to a template that defines a key to derive

ulAttributeCount number of attributes in the template pointed to by pTemplate

phKey pointer to receive the handle for a derived key

¨ CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS, CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS_PTR

CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters for the CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF and CKM_SP800_108_DOUBLE_PIPELINE_KDF mechanisms.

typedef struct CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS

{

CK_SP800_108_PRF_TYPE prfType;

CK_ULONG ulNumberOfDataParams;

CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM_PTR pDataParams;

CK_ULONG ulAdditionalDerivedKeys;

CK_DERIVED_KEY_PTR pAdditionalDerivedKeys;
} CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS;

typedef CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS CK_PTR CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS_PTR;

The fields of the CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS structure have the following meaning:

prfType type of PRF

ulNumberOfDataParams number of elements in the array pointed to by pDataParams

pDataParams an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures. The array defines input parameters that are used to construct the “data” input to the PRF.

ulAdditionalDerivedKeys number of additional keys that will be derived and the number of elements in the array pointed to by pAdditionalDerivedKeys. If pAdditionalDerivedKeys is set to NULL_PTR, this parameter must be set to 0.

pAdditionalDerivedKeys an array of CK_DERIVED_KEY structures. If ulAdditionalDerivedKeys is set to 0, this parameter must be set to NULL_PTR

¨ CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS, CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS_PTR

The CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS structure provides the parameters for the CKM_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS

{

CK_SP800_108_PRF_TYPE prfType;

CK_ULONG ulNumberOfDataParams;

CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM_PTR pDataParams;

CK_ULONG ulIVLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pIV;

CK_ULONG ulAdditionalDerivedKeys;

CK_DERIVED_KEY_PTR pAdditionalDerivedKeys;
} CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS;

typedef CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS CK_PTR CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS_PTR;

The fields of the CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS structure have the following meaning:

prfType type of PRF

ulNumberOfDataParams number of elements in the array pointed to by pDataParams

pDataParams an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures. The array defines input parameters that are used to construct the “data” input to the PRF.

ulIVLen the length in bytes of the IV. If pIV is set to NULL_PTR, this parameter must be set to 0.

pIV an array of bytes to be used as the IV for the feedback mode KDF. This parameter is optional and can be set to NULL_PTR. If ulIVLen is set to 0, this parameter must be set to NULL_PTR.

pAdditionalDerivedKeys an array of CK_DERIVED_KEY structures. If ulAdditionalDerivedKeys is set to 0, this parameter must be set to NULL_PTR.

2.42.3 Counter Mode KDF

The SP800-108 Counter Mode KDF mechanism, denoted CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF, represents the KDF defined SP800-108 section 5.1. CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF is a mechanism for deriving one or more symmetric keys from a symmetric base key.

It has a parameter, a CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS structure.

The following table lists the data field types that are supported for this KDF type and their meaning:

Table 164, Counter Mode data field requirements

Data Field Identifier	Description
CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE	This data field type is mandatory. This data field type identifies the location of the iteration variable in the constructed PRF input data. The iteration variable for this KDF type is a counter. Exact formatting of the counter value is defined by the CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT structure.
CK_SP800_108_COUNTER	This data field type is invalid for this KDF type.
CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location of the DKM length in the constructed PRF input data. Exact formatting of the DKM length is defined by the CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT structure. If specified, only one instance of this type may be specified.
CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location and value of a byte array of data in the constructed PRF input data. This standard does not restrict the number of instances of this data type.

SP800-108 limits the amount of derived keying material that can be produced by a Counter Mode KDF by limiting the internal loop counter to (2^r−1), where “r” is the number of bits used to represent the counter. Therefore the maximum number of bits that can be produced is (2^r−1)h, where “h” is the length in bits of the output of the selected PRF.

2.42.4 Feedback Mode KDF

The SP800-108 Feedback Mode KDF mechanism, denoted CKM_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF, represents the KDF defined SP800-108 section 5.2. CKM_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF is a mechanism for deriving one or more symmetric keys from a symmetric base key.

It has a parameter, a CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS structure.

The following table lists the data field types that are supported for this KDF type and their meaning:

Table 165, Feedback Mode data field requirements

Data Field Identifier	Description
CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE	This data field type is mandatory. This data field type identifies the location of the iteration variable in the constructed PRF input data. The iteration variable is defined as K(i-1) in section 5.2 of SP800-108. The size, format and value of this data input is defined by the internal KDF structure and PRF output. Exact formatting of the counter value is defined by the CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT structure.
CK_SP800_108_COUNTER	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location of the counter in the constructed PRF input data. Exact formatting of the counter value is defined by the CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT structure. If specified, only one instance of this type may be specified.
CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location of the DKM length in the constructed PRF input data. Exact formatting of the DKM length is defined by the CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT structure. If specified, only one instance of this type may be specified.
CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location and value of a byte array of data in the constructed PRF input data. This standard does not restrict the number of instances of this data type.

SP800-108 limits the amount of derived keying material that can be produced by a Feedback Mode KDF by limiting the internal loop counter to (2³²−1). Therefore the maximum number of bits that can be produced is (2³²−1)h, where “h” is the length in bits of the output of the selected PRF.

2.42.5 Double Pipeline Mode KDF

The SP800-108 Double Pipeline Mode KDF mechanism, denoted CKM_SP800_108_DOUBLE_PIPELINE_KDF, represents the KDF defined SP800-108 section 5.3. CKM_SP800_108_DOUBLE_PIPELINE_KDF is a mechanism for deriving one or more symmetric keys from a symmetric base key.

It has a parameter, a CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS structure.

The following table lists the data field types that are supported for this KDF type and their meaning:

Table 166, Double Pipeline Mode data field requirements

Data Field Identifier	Description
CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE	This data field type is mandatory. This data field type identifies the location of the iteration variable in the constructed PRF input data. The iteration variable is defined as A(i) in section 5.3 of SP800-108. The size, format and value of this data input is defined by the internal KDF structure and PRF output. Exact formatting of the counter value is defined by the CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT structure.
CK_SP800_108_COUNTER	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location of the counter in the constructed PRF input data. Exact formatting of the counter value is defined by the CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT structure. If specified, only one instance of this type may be specified.
CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location of the DKM length in the constructed PRF input data. Exact formatting of the DKM length is defined by the CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT structure. If specified, only one instance of this type may be specified.
CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY	This data field type is optional. This data field type identifies the location and value of a byte array of data in the constructed PRF input data. This standard does not restrict the number of instances of this data type.

SP800-108 limits the amount of derived keying material that can be produced by a Double-Pipeline Mode KDF by limiting the internal loop counter to (2³²−1). Therefore the maximum number of bits that can be produced is (2³²−1)h, where “h” is the length in bits of the output of the selected PRF.

The Double Pipeline KDF requires an internal IV value. The IV is constructed using the same method used to construct the PRF input data; the data/values identified by the array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures are concatenated in to a byte array that is used as the IV. As shown in SP800-108 section 5.3, the CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE and CK_SP800_108_COUNTER data field types are not included in IV construction process. All other data field types are included in the construction process.

2.42.6 Deriving Additional Keys

The KDFs defined in this section can be used to derive more than one symmetric key from the base key. The C_Derive function accepts one CK_ATTRIBUTE_PTR to define a single derived key and one CK_OBJECT_HANDLE_PTR to receive the handle for the derived key.

To derive additional keys, the mechanism parameter structure can be filled in with one or more CK_DERIVED_KEY structures. Each structure contains a CK_ATTRIBUTE_PTR to define a derived key and a CK_OBJECT_HANDLE_PTR to receive the handle for the additional derived keys. The key defined by the C_Derive function parameters is always derived before the keys defined by the CK_DERIVED_KEY array that is part of the mechanism parameter. The additional keys that are defined by the CK_DERIVED_KEY array are derived in the order they are defined in the array. That is to say that the derived keying material produced by the KDF is processed from left to right, and bytes are assigned first to the key defined by the C_Derive function parameters, and then bytes are assigned to the keys that are defined by the CK_DERIVED_KEY array in the order they are defined in the array.

Each internal iteration of a KDF produces a unique segment of PRF output. Sometimes, a single iteration will produce enough keying material for the key being derived. Other times, additional internal iterations are performed to produce multiple segments which are concatenated together to produce enough keying material for the derived key(s).

When deriving multiple keys, no key can be created using part of a segment that was used for another key. All keys must be created from disjoint segments. For example, if the parameters are defined such that a 48-byte key (defined by the C_Derive function parameters) and a 16-byte key (defined by the content of CK_DERIVED_KEY) are to be derived using CKM_SHA256_HMAC as a PRF, three internal iterations of the KDF will be performed and three segments of PRF output will be produced. The first segment and half of the second segment will be used to create the 48-byte key and the third segment will be used to create the 16-byte key.

In the above example, if the CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH data field type is specified with method CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_KEYS, then the DKM length value will be 512 bits. If the CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH data field type is specified with method CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_SEGMENTS, then the DKM length value will be 768 bits.

When deriving multiple keys, if any of the keys cannot be derived for any reason, none of the keys shall be derived. If the failure was caused by the content of a specific key’s template (ie the template defined by the content of pTemplate), the corresponding phKey value will be set to CK_INVALID_HANDLE to identify the offending template.

2.42.7 Key Derivation Attribute Rules

The CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF, CKM_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF and CKM_SP800_108_DOUBLE_PIPELINE_KDF mechanisms have the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· The CKA_SENSITIVE and CKA_EXTRACTABLE attributes in the template for the new key(s) can both be specified to be either CK_TRUE or CK_FALSE. If omitted, these attributes each take on some default value.

2.42.8 Constructing PRF Input Data

SP800-108 defines the PRF input data for each KDF at a high level using terms like “label”, “context”, “separator”, “counter”…etc. The value, formatting and order of the input data is not strictly defined by SP800-108, instead it is described as being defined by the “encoding scheme”.

To support any encoding scheme, these mechanisms construct the PRF input data from from the array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures in the mechanism parameter. All of the values defined by the CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM array are concatenated in the order they are defined and passed in to the PRF as the data parameter.

2.42.8.1 Sample Counter Mode KDF

SP800-108 section 5.1 outlines a sample Counter Mode KDF which defines the following PRF input:

PRF (KI, [i]2 || Label || 0x00 || Context || [L]2)

Section 5.1 does not define the number of bits used to represent the counter (the “r” value) or the DKM length (the “L” value), so 16-bits is assumed for both cases. The following sample code shows how to define this PRF input data using an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures.

#define DIM(a) (sizeof((a))/sizeof((a)[0]))

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hBaseKey;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hDerivedKey;

CK_ATTRIBUTE derivedKeyTemplate = { … };

CK_BYTE baLabel[] = {0xde, 0xad, 0xbe , 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulLabelLen = sizeof(baLabel);

CK_BYTE baContext[] = {0xfe, 0xed, 0xbe , 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulContextLen = sizeof(baContext);

CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT counterFormat = {0, 16};

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT dkmFormat

= {CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_KEYS, 0, 16};

CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM dataParams[] =

{

{ CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE,

&counterFormat, sizeof(counterFormat) },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baLabel, ulLabelLen },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, {0x00}, 1 },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baContext, ulContextLen },

{ CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH, dkmFormat, sizeof(dkmFormat) }

};

CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS kdfParams =

{

CKM_AES_CMAC,

DIM(dataParams),

&dataParams,

0, /* no addition derived keys */

NULL /* no addition derived keys */

};

CK_MECHANISM = mechanism

{

CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF,

&kdfParams,

sizeof(kdfParams)

};

hBaseKey = GetBaseKeyHandle(.....);

rv = C_DeriveKey(

hSession,

&mechanism,

hBaseKey,

&derivedKeyTemplate,

DIM(derivedKeyTemplate),

&hDerivedKey);

2.42.8.2 Sample SCP03 Counter Mode KDF

The SCP03 standard defines a variation of a counter mode KDF which defines the following PRF input:

PRF (KI, Label || 0x00 || [L]2 || [i]2 || Context)

SCP03 defines the number of bits used to represent the counter (the “r” value) and number of bits used to represent the DKM length (the “L” value) as 16-bits. The following sample code shows how to define this PRF input data using an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures.

#define DIM(a) (sizeof((a))/sizeof((a)[0]))

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hBaseKey;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hDerivedKey;

CK_ATTRIBUTE derivedKeyTemplate = { … };

CK_BYTE baLabel[] = {0xde, 0xad, 0xbe , 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulLabelLen = sizeof(baLabel);

CK_BYTE baContext[] = {0xfe, 0xed, 0xbe , 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulContextLen = sizeof(baContext);

CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT counterFormat = {0, 16};

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT dkmFormat

= {CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_KEYS, 0, 16};

CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM dataParams[] =

{

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baLabel, ulLabelLen },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, {0x00}, 1 },

{ CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH, dkmFormat, sizeof(dkmFormat) },

{ CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE,

&counterFormat, sizeof(counterFormat) },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baContext, ulContextLen }

};

CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS kdfParams =

{

CKM_AES_CMAC,

DIM(dataParams),

&dataParams,

0, /* no addition derived keys */

NULL /* no addition derived keys */

};

CK_MECHANISM = mechanism

{

CKM_SP800_108_COUNTER_KDF,

&kdfParams,

sizeof(kdfParams)

};

hBaseKey = GetBaseKeyHandle(.....);

rv = C_DeriveKey(

hSession,

&mechanism,

hBaseKey,

&derivedKeyTemplate,

DIM(derivedKeyTemplate),

&hDerivedKey);

2.42.8.3 Sample Feedback Mode KDF

SP800-108 section 5.2 outlines a sample Feedback Mode KDF which defines the following PRF input:

PRF (KI, K(i-1) {|| [i]2 }|| Label || 0x00 || Context || [L]2)

Section 5.2 does not define the number of bits used to represent the counter (the “r” value) or the DKM length (the “L” value), so 16-bits is assumed for both cases. The counter is defined as being optional and is included in this example. The following sample code shows how to define this PRF input data using an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures.

#define DIM(a) (sizeof((a))/sizeof((a)[0]))

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hBaseKey;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hDerivedKey;

CK_ATTRIBUTE derivedKeyTemplate = { … };

CK_BYTE baFeedbackIV[] = {0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04};

CK_ULONG ulFeedbackIVLen = sizeof(baFeedbackIV);

CK_BYTE baLabel[] = {0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulLabelLen = sizeof(baLabel);

CK_BYTE baContext[] = {0xfe, 0xed, 0xbe, 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulContextLen = sizeof(baContext);

CK_SP800_108_COUNTER_FORMAT counterFormat = {0, 16};

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT dkmFormat

= {CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_KEYS, 0, 16};

CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM dataParams[] =

{

{ CK_SP800_108_ITERATION_VARIABLE,

&counterFormat, sizeof(counterFormat) },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baLabel, ulLabelLen },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, {0x00}, 1 },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baContext, ulContextLen },

{ CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH, dkmFormat, sizeof(dkmFormat) }

};

CK_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF_PARAMS kdfParams =

{

CKM_AES_CMAC,

DIM(dataParams),

&dataParams,

ulFeedbackIVLen,

baFeedbackIV,

0, /* no addition derived keys */

NULL /* no addition derived keys */

};

CK_MECHANISM = mechanism

{

CKM_SP800_108_FEEDBACK_KDF,

&kdfParams,

sizeof(kdfParams)

};

hBaseKey = GetBaseKeyHandle(.....);

rv = C_DeriveKey(

hSession,

&mechanism,

hBaseKey,

&derivedKeyTemplate,

DIM(derivedKeyTemplate),

&hDerivedKey);

2.42.8.4 Sample Double-Pipeline Mode KDF

SP800-108 section 5.3 outlines a sample Double-Pipeline Mode KDF which defines the two following PRF inputs:

PRF (KI, A(i-1))

PRF (KI, K(i-1) {|| [i]2 }|| Label || 0x00 || Context || [L]2)

Section 5.3 does not define the number of bits used to represent the counter (the “r” value) or the DKM length (the “L” value), so 16-bits is assumed for both cases. The counter is defined as being optional so it is left out in this example. The following sample code shows how to define this PRF input data using an array of CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM structures.

#define DIM(a) (sizeof((a))/sizeof((a)[0]))

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hBaseKey;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hDerivedKey;

CK_ATTRIBUTE derivedKeyTemplate = { … };

CK_BYTE baLabel[] = {0xde, 0xad, 0xbe , 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulLabelLen = sizeof(baLabel);

CK_BYTE baContext[] = {0xfe, 0xed, 0xbe , 0xef};

CK_ULONG ulContextLen = sizeof(baContext);

CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_FORMAT dkmFormat

= {CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH_SUM_OF_KEYS, 0, 16};

CK_PRF_DATA_PARAM dataParams[] =

{

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baLabel, ulLabelLen },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, {0x00}, 1 },

{ CK_SP800_108_BYTE_ARRAY, baContext, ulContextLen },

{ CK_SP800_108_DKM_LENGTH, dkmFormat, sizeof(dkmFormat) }

};

CK_SP800_108_KDF_PARAMS kdfParams =

{

CKM_AES_CMAC,

DIM(dataParams),

&dataParams,

0, /* no addition derived keys */

NULL /* no addition derived keys */

};

CK_MECHANISM = mechanism

{

CKM_SP800_108_DOUBLE_PIPELINE_KDF,

&kdfParams,

sizeof(kdfParams)

};

hBaseKey = GetBaseKeyHandle(.....);

rv = C_DeriveKey(

hSession,

&mechanism,

hBaseKey,

&derivedKeyTemplate,

DIM(derivedKeyTemplate),

&hDerivedKey);

2.43 Miscellaneous simple key derivation mechanisms

Table 167, Miscellaneous simple key derivation Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_CONCATENATE_BASE_AND_KEY							ü
CKM_CONCATENATE_BASE_AND_DATA							ü
CKM_CONCATENATE_DATA_AND_BASE							ü
CKM_XOR_BASE_AND_DATA							ü
CKM_EXTRACT_KEY_FROM_KEY							ü

2.43.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_CONCATENATE_BASE_AND_DATA

CKM_CONCATENATE_DATA_AND_BASE

CKM_XOR_BASE_AND_DATA

CKM_EXTRACT_KEY_FROM_KEY

CKM_CONCATENATE_BASE_AND_KEY

2.43.2 Parameters for miscellaneous simple key derivation mechanisms

¨ CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA; CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA_PTR

CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA provides the parameters for the CKM_CONCATENATE_BASE_AND_DATA, CKM_CONCATENATE_DATA_AND_BASE, and CKM_XOR_BASE_AND_DATA mechanisms. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA {

CK_BYTE_PTR pData;

CK_ULONG ulLen;

} CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pData pointer to the byte string

ulLen length of the byte string

CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA_PTR is a pointer to a CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA.

¨ CK_EXTRACT_PARAMS; CK_EXTRACT_PARAMS_PTR

CK_EXTRACT_PARAMS provides the parameter to the CKM_EXTRACT_KEY_FROM_KEY mechanism. It specifies which bit of the base key should be used as the first bit of the derived key. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_EXTRACT_PARAMS;

CK_EXTRACT_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_EXTRACT_PARAMS.

2.43.3 Concatenation of a base key and another key

This mechanism, denoted CKM_CONCATENATE_BASE_AND_KEY, derives a secret key from the concatenation of two existing secret keys. The two keys are specified by handles; the values of the keys specified are concatenated together in a buffer.

This mechanism takes a parameter, a CK_OBJECT_HANDLE. This handle produces the key value information which is appended to the end of the base key’s value information (the base key is the key whose handle is supplied as an argument to C_DeriveKey).

For example, if the value of the base key is 0x01234567, and the value of the other key is 0x89ABCDEF, then the value of the derived key will be taken from a buffer containing the string 0x0123456789ABCDEF.

· If no length or key type is provided in the template, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key. Its length will be equal to the sum of the lengths of the values of the two original keys.

· If no key type is provided in the template, but a length is, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key of the specified length.

· If no length is provided in the template, but a key type is, then that key type must have a well-defined length. If it does, then the key produced by this mechanism will be of the type specified in the template. If it doesn’t, an error will be returned.

· If both a key type and a length are provided in the template, the length must be compatible with that key type. The key produced by this mechanism will be of the specified type and length.

If a DES, DES2, DES3, or CDMF key is derived with this mechanism, the parity bits of the key will be set properly.

If the requested type of key requires more bytes than are available by concatenating the two original keys’ values, an error is generated.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· If either of the two original keys has its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE, so does the derived key. If not, then the derived key’s CKA_SENSITIVE attribute is set either from the supplied template or from a default value.

· Similarly, if either of the two original keys has its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE, so does the derived key. If not, then the derived key’s CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set either from the supplied template or from a default value.

· The derived key’s CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if both of the original keys have their CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attributes set to CK_TRUE.

· Similarly, the derived key’s CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if both of the original keys have their CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attributes set to CK_TRUE.

2.43.4 Concatenation of a base key and data

This mechanism, denoted CKM_CONCATENATE_BASE_AND_DATA, derives a secret key by concatenating data onto the end of a specified secret key.

This mechanism takes a parameter, a CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure, which specifies the length and value of the data which will be appended to the base key to derive another key.

For example, if the value of the base key is 0x01234567, and the value of the data is 0x89ABCDEF, then the value of the derived key will be taken from a buffer containing the string 0x0123456789ABCDEF.

· If no key type is provided in the template, but a length is, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key of the specified length.

· If both a key type and a length are provided in the template, the length must be compatible with that key type. The key produced by this mechanism will be of the specified type and length.

If a DES, DES2, DES3, or CDMF key is derived with this mechanism, the parity bits of the key will be set properly.

If the requested type of key requires more bytes than are available by concatenating the original key’s value and the data, an error is generated.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· If the base key has its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE, so does the derived key. If not, then the derived key’s CKA_SENSITIVE attribute is set either from the supplied template or from a default value.

· Similarly, if the base key has its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE, so does the derived key. If not, then the derived key’s CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set either from the supplied template or from a default value.

· The derived key’s CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

· Similarly, the derived key’s CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

2.43.5 Concatenation of data and a base key

This mechanism, denoted CKM_CONCATENATE_DATA_AND_BASE, derives a secret key by prepending data to the start of a specified secret key.

This mechanism takes a parameter, a CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure, which specifies the length and value of the data which will be prepended to the base key to derive another key.

For example, if the value of the base key is 0x01234567, and the value of the data is 0x89ABCDEF, then the value of the derived key will be taken from a buffer containing the string 0x89ABCDEF01234567.

· If no length or key type is provided in the template, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key. Its length will be equal to the sum of the lengths of the data and the value of the original key.

· If no key type is provided in the template, but a length is, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key of the specified length.

· If both a key type and a length are provided in the template, the length must be compatible with that key type. The key produced by this mechanism will be of the specified type and length.

If a DES, DES2, DES3, or CDMF key is derived with this mechanism, the parity bits of the key will be set properly.

If the requested type of key requires more bytes than are available by concatenating the data and the original key’s value, an error is generated.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· The derived key’s CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

· Similarly, the derived key’s CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

2.43.6 XORing of a key and data

XORing key derivation, denoted CKM_XOR_BASE_AND_DATA, is a mechanism which provides the capability of deriving a secret key by performing a bit XORing of a key pointed to by a base key handle and some data.

This mechanism takes a parameter, a CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure, which specifies the data with which to XOR the original key’s value.

For example, if the value of the base key is 0x01234567, and the value of the data is 0x89ABCDEF, then the value of the derived key will be taken from a buffer containing the string 0x88888888.

· If no length or key type is provided in the template, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key. Its length will be equal to the minimum of the lengths of the data and the value of the original key.

· If no key type is provided in the template, but a length is, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key of the specified length.

· If both a key type and a length are provided in the template, the length must be compatible with that key type. The key produced by this mechanism will be of the specified type and length.

If a DES, DES2, DES3, or CDMF key is derived with this mechanism, the parity bits of the key will be set properly.

If the requested type of key requires more bytes than are available by taking the shorter of the data and the original key’s value, an error is generated.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· The derived key’s CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

· Similarly, the derived key’s CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

2.43.7 Extraction of one key from another key

Extraction of one key from another key, denoted CKM_EXTRACT_KEY_FROM_KEY, is a mechanism which provides the capability of creating one secret key from the bits of another secret key.

This mechanism has a parameter, a CK_EXTRACT_PARAMS, which specifies which bit of the original key should be used as the first bit of the newly-derived key.

We give an example of how this mechanism works. Suppose a token has a secret key with the 4-byte value 0x329F84A9. We will derive a 2-byte secret key from this key, starting at bit position 21 (i.e., the value of the parameter to the CKM_EXTRACT_KEY_FROM_KEY mechanism is 21).

1. We write the key’s value in binary: 0011 0010 1001 1111 1000 0100 1010 1001. We regard this binary string as holding the 32 bits of the key, labeled as b0, b1, …, b31.

2. We then extract 16 consecutive bits (i.e., 2 bytes) from this binary string, starting at bit b21. We obtain the binary string 1001 0101 0010 0110.

3. The value of the new key is thus 0x9526.

Note that when constructing the value of the derived key, it is permissible to wrap around the end of the binary string representing the original key’s value.

If the original key used in this process is sensitive, then the derived key must also be sensitive for the derivation to succeed.

· If no length or key type is provided in the template, then an error will be returned.

· If no key type is provided in the template, but a length is, then the key produced by this mechanism will be a generic secret key of the specified length.

· If both a key type and a length are provided in the template, the length must be compatible with that key type. The key produced by this mechanism will be of the specified type and length.

If a DES, DES2, DES3, or CDMF key is derived with this mechanism, the parity bits of the key will be set properly.

If the requested type of key requires more bytes than the original key has, an error is generated.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

· The derived key’s CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

· Similarly, the derived key’s CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute is set to CK_TRUE if and only if the base key has its CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_TRUE.

2.44 CMS

Table 168, CMS Mechanisms vs. Functions

Functions

Mechanism

Encrypt

Decrypt

Sign

Verify

VR¹

Digest

Gen.

Key/

Key

Pair

Wrap

Unwrap

Derive

CKM_CMS_SIG

2.44.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_CMS_SIG

2.44.2 CMS Signature Mechanism Objects

These objects provide information relating to the CKM_CMS_SIG mechanism. CKM_CMS_SIG mechanism object attributes represent information about supported CMS signature attributes in the token. They are only present on tokens supporting the CKM_CMS_SIG mechanism, but must be present on those tokens.

Table 169, CMS Signature Mechanism Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_REQUIRED_CMS_ATTRIBUTES	Byte array	Attributes the token always will include in the set of CMS signed attributes
CKA_DEFAULT_CMS_ATTRIBUTES	Byte array	Attributes the token will include in the set of CMS signed attributes in the absence of any attributes specified by the application
CKA_SUPPORTED_CMS_ATTRIBUTES	Byte array	Attributes the token may include in the set of CMS signed attributes upon request by the application

The contents of each byte array will be a DER-encoded list of CMS Attributes with optional accompanying values. Any attributes in the list shall be identified with its object identifier, and any values shall be DER-encoded. The list of attributes is defined in ASN.1 as:

Attributes ::= SET SIZE (1..MAX) OF Attribute

Attribute ::= SEQUENCE {

attrType OBJECT IDENTIFIER,

attrValues SET OF ANY DEFINED BY OBJECT IDENTIFIER OPTIONAL

}

The client may not set any of the attributes.

2.44.3 CMS mechanism parameters

· CK_CMS_SIG_PARAMS, CK_CMS_SIG_PARAMS_PTR

CK_CMS_SIG_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_CMS_SIG mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_CMS_SIG_PARAMS {

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE certificateHandle;

CK_MECHANISM_PTR pSigningMechanism;

CK_MECHANISM_PTR pDigestMechanism;

CK_UTF8CHAR_PTR pContentType;

CK_BYTE_PTR pRequestedAttributes;

CK_ULONG ulRequestedAttributesLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pRequiredAttributes;

CK_ULONG ulRequiredAttributesLen;

} CK_CMS_SIG_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

certificateHandle Object handle for a certificate associated with the signing key. The token may use information from this certificate to identify the signer in the SignerInfo result value. CertificateHandle may be NULL_PTR if the certificate is not available as a PKCS #11 object or if the calling application leaves the choice of certificate completely to the token.

pSigningMechanism Mechanism to use when signing a constructed CMS SignedAttributes value. E.g. CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS.

pDigestMechanism Mechanism to use when digesting the data. Value shall be NULL_PTR when the digest mechanism to use follows from the pSigningMechanism parameter.

pContentType NULL-terminated string indicating complete MIME Content-type of message to be signed; or the value NULL_PTR if the message is a MIME object (which the token can parse to determine its MIME Content-type if required). Use the value “application/octet-stream“ if the MIME type for the message is unknown or undefined. Note that the pContentType string shall conform to the syntax specified in RFC 2045, i.e. any parameters needed for correct presentation of the content by the token (such as, for example, a non-default “charset”) must be present. The token must follow rules and procedures defined in RFC 2045 when presenting the content.

pRequestedAttributes Pointer to DER-encoded list of CMS Attributes the caller requests to be included in the signed attributes. Token may freely ignore this list or modify any supplied values.

ulRequestedAttributesLen Length in bytes of the value pointed to by pRequestedAttributes

pRequiredAttributes Pointer to DER-encoded list of CMS Attributes (with accompanying values) required to be included in the resulting signed attributes. Token must not modify any supplied values. If the token does not support one or more of the attributes, or does not accept provided values, the signature operation will fail. The token will use its own default attributes when signing if both the pRequestedAttributes and pRequiredAttributes field are set to NULL_PTR.

ulRequiredAttributesLen Length in bytes, of the value pointed to by pRequiredAttributes.

2.44.4 CMS signatures

The CMS mechanism, denoted CKM_CMS_SIG, is a multi-purpose mechanism based on the structures defined in PKCS #7 and RFC 2630. It supports single- or multiple-part signatures with and without message recovery. The mechanism is intended for use with, e.g., PTDs (see MeT-PTD) or other capable tokens. The token will construct a CMS SignedAttributes value and compute a signature on this value. The content of the SignedAttributes value is decided by the token, however the caller can suggest some attributes in the parameter pRequestedAttributes. The caller can also require some attributes to be present through the parameters pRequiredAttributes. The signature is computed in accordance with the parameter pSigningMechanism.

When this mechanism is used in successful calls to C_Sign or C_SignFinal, the pSignature return value will point to a DER-encoded value of type SignerInfo. SignerInfo is defined in ASN.1 as follows (for a complete definition of all fields and types, see RFC 2630):

SignerInfo ::= SEQUENCE {

version CMSVersion,

sid SignerIdentifier,

digestAlgorithm DigestAlgorithmIdentifier,

signedAttrs [0] IMPLICIT SignedAttributes OPTIONAL,

signatureAlgorithm SignatureAlgorithmIdentifier,

signature SignatureValue,

unsignedAttrs [1] IMPLICIT UnsignedAttributes OPTIONAL }

The certificateHandle parameter, when set, helps the token populate the sid field of the SignerInfo value. If certificateHandle is NULL_PTR the choice of a suitable certificate reference in the SignerInfo result value is left to the token (the token could, e.g., interact with the user).

This mechanism shall not be used in calls to C_Verify or C_VerifyFinal (use the pSigningMechanism mechanism instead).

For the pRequiredAttributes field, the token may have to interact with the user to find out whether to accept a proposed value or not. The token should never accept any proposed attribute values without some kind of confirmation from its owner (but this could be through, e.g., configuration or policy settings and not direct interaction). If a user rejects proposed values, or the signature request as such, the value CKR_FUNCTION_REJECTED shall be returned.

When possible, applications should use the CKM_CMS_SIG mechanism when generating CMS-compatible signatures rather than lower-level mechanisms such as CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS. This is especially true when the signatures are to be made on content that the token is able to present to a user. Exceptions may include those cases where the token does not support a particular signing attribute. Note however that the token may refuse usage of a particular signature key unless the content to be signed is known (i.e. the CKM_CMS_SIG mechanism is used).

When a token does not have presentation capabilities, the PKCS #11-aware application may avoid sending the whole message to the token by electing to use a suitable signature mechanism (e.g. CKM_RSA_PKCS) as the pSigningMechanism value in the CK_CMS_SIG_PARAMS structure, and digesting the message itself before passing it to the token.

PKCS #11-aware applications making use of tokens with presentation capabilities, should attempt to provide messages to be signed by the token in a format possible for the token to present to the user. Tokens that receive multipart MIME-messages for which only certain parts are possible to present may fail the signature operation with a return value of CKR_DATA_INVALID, but may also choose to add a signing attribute indicating which parts of the message were possible to present.

2.45 Blowfish

Blowfish, a secret-key block cipher. It is a Feistel network, iterating a simple encryption function 16 times. The block size is 64 bits, and the key can be any length up to 448 bits. Although there is a complex initialization phase required before any encryption can take place, the actual encryption of data is very efficient on large microprocessors.

Table 170, Blowfish Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_BLOWFISH_CBC	✓					✓
CKM_BLOWFISH_CBC_PAD	✓					✓

2.45.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_BLOWFISH” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_BLOWFISH_KEY_GEN

CKM_BLOWFISH_CBC

CKM_BLOWFISH_CBC_PAD

2.45.2 BLOWFISH secret key objects

Blowfish secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_BLOWFISH) hold Blowfish keys. The following table defines the Blowfish secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 171, BLOWFISH Secret Key Object

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value the key can be any length up to 448 bits. Bit length restricted to a byte array.
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The following is a sample template for creating an Blowfish secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_BLOWFISH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A blowfish secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[16] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.45.3 Blowfish key generation

The Blowfish key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_BLOWFISH_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism Blowfish.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates Blowfish keys with a particular length, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of key sizes in bytes.

2.45.4 Blowfish-CBC

Blowfish-CBC, denoted CKM_BLOWFISH_CBC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping.

It has a parameter, a 8-byte initialization vector.

This mechanism can wrap and unwrap any secret key. For wrapping, the mechanism encrypts the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped, padded on the trailing end with up to block size minus one null bytes so that the resulting length is a multiple of the block size. The output data is the same length as the padded input data. It does not wrap the key type, key length, or any other information about the key; the application must convey these separately.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 172, BLOWFISH-CBC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input Length	Output Length
C_Encrypt	BLOWFISH	Multiple of block size	Same as input length
C_Decrypt	BLOWFISH	Multiple of block size	Same as input length
C_WrapKey	BLOWFISH	Any	Input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	BLOWFISH	Multiple of block size	Determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of BLOWFISH key sizes, in bytes.

2.45.5 Blowfish-CBC with PKCS padding

Blowfish-CBC-PAD, denoted CKM_BLOWFISH_CBC_PAD, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption, key wrapping and key unwrapping, cipher-block chaining mode and the block cipher padding method detailed in PKCS #7.

It has a parameter, a 8-byte initialization vector.

The entries in the table below for data length constraints when wrapping and unwrapping keys do not apply to wrapping and unwrapping private keys.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 173, BLOWFISH-CBC with PKCS Padding: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input Length	Output Length
C_Encrypt	BLOWFISH	Any	Input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_Decrypt	BLOWFISH	Multiple of block size	Between 1 and block length block size bytes shorter than input length
C_WrapKey	BLOWFISH	Any	Input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	BLOWFISH	Multiple of block size	Between 1 and block length block size bytes shorter than input length

2.46 Twofish

Ref. https://www.schneier.com/twofish.html

2.46.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_TWOFISH” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_TWOFISH_KEY_GEN

CKM_TWOFISH_CBC

CKM_TWOFISH_CBC_PAD

2.46.2 Twofish secret key objects

Twofish secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_TWOFISH) hold Twofish keys. The following table defines the Twofish secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 174, Twofish Secret Key Object

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value 128-, 192-, or 256-bit key
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes}

The following is a sample template for creating an TWOFISH secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_TWOFISH;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A twofish secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[16] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.46.3 Twofish key generation

The Twofish key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_TWOFISH_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism Twofish.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates Blowfish keys with a particular length, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of key sizes, in bytes.

2.46.4 Twofish -CBC

Twofish-CBC, denoted CKM_TWOFISH_CBC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

2.46.5 Twofish-CBC with PKCS padding

Twofish-CBC-PAD, denoted CKM_TWOFISH_CBC_PAD, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption, key wrapping and key unwrapping, cipher-block chaining mode and the block cipher padding method detailed in PKCS #7.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

2.47 CAMELLIA

Camellia is a block cipher with 128-bit block size and 128-, 192-, and 256-bit keys, similar to AES. Camellia is described e.g. in IETF RFC 3713.

Table 175, Camellia Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_CAMELLIA_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_CAMELLIA_ECB	ü					ü
CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC	ü					ü
CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC_PAD	ü					ü
CKM_CAMELLIA_MAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_CAMELLIA_MAC		ü
CKM_CAMELLIA_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü

2.47.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_CAMELLIA” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_CAMELLIA_KEY_GEN

CKM_CAMELLIA_ECB

CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC

CKM_CAMELLIA_MAC

CKM_CAMELLIA_MAC_GENERAL

CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC_PAD

2.47.2 Camellia secret key objects

Camellia secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_CAMELLIA) hold Camellia keys. The following table defines the Camellia secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 176, Camellia Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (16, 24, or 32 bytes)
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3,6	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes.}

The following is a sample template for creating a Camellia secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_CAMELLIA;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Camellia secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.47.3 Camellia key generation

The Camellia key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_CAMELLIA_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for Camellia.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates Camellia keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the Camellia key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Camellia key sizes, in bytes.

2.47.4 Camellia-ECB

Camellia-ECB, denoted CKM_CAMELLIA_ECB, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on Camellia and electronic codebook mode.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 177, Camellia-ECB: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_WrapKey	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of block size
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Camellia key sizes, in bytes.

2.47.5 Camellia-CBC

Camellia-CBC, denoted CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on Camellia and cipher-block chaining mode.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 178, Camellia-CBC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_WrapKey	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Camellia key sizes, in bytes.

2.47.6 Camellia-CBC with PKCS padding

Camellia-CBC with PKCS padding, denoted CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC_PAD, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on Camellia; cipher-block chaining mode; and the block cipher padding method detailed in PKCS #7.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

In addition to being able to wrap and unwrap secret keys, this mechanism can wrap and unwrap RSA, Diffie-Hellman, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman, EC (also related to ECDSA) and DSA private keys (see Section TBA for details). The entries in the table below for data length constraints when wrapping and unwrapping keys do not apply to wrapping and unwrapping private keys.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 179, Camellia-CBC with PKCS Padding: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_Decrypt	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	between 1 and block size bytes shorter than input length
C_WrapKey	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_CAMELLIA	multiple of block size	between 1 and block length bytes shorter than input length

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Camellia key sizes, in bytes.

2.47.7 CAMELLIA with Counter mechanism parameters

¨ CK_CAMELLIA_CTR_PARAMS; CK_CAMELLIA_CTR_PARAMS_PTR

CK_CAMELLIA_CTR_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_CAMELLIA_CTR mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_CAMELLIA_CTR_PARAMS {

CK_ULONG ulCounterBits;

CK_BYTE cb[16];

} CK_CAMELLIA_CTR_PARAMS;

E.g. as defined in [RFC 3686]:

    0                   1                   2                   3

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   |                            Nonce                              |

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   |                  Initialization Vector (IV)                   |

   |                                                               |

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   |                         Block Counter                         |

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

This construction permits each packet to consist of up to 2³²-1 blocks = 4,294,967,295 blocks = 68,719,476,720 octets.

CK_CAMELLIA_CTR_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_CAMELLIA_CTR_PARAMS.

2.47.8 General-length Camellia-MAC

General-length Camellia -MAC, denoted CKM_CAMELLIA_MAC_GENERAL, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification, based on Camellia and data authentication as defined in.[CAMELLIA]

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure, which specifies the output length desired from the mechanism.

The output bytes from this mechanism are taken from the start of the final Camellia cipher block produced in the MACing process.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 180, General-length Camellia-MAC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters
C_Verify	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Camellia key sizes, in bytes.

2.47.9 Camellia-MAC

Camellia-MAC, denoted by CKM_CAMELLIA_MAC, is a special case of the general-length Camellia-MAC mechanism. Camellia-MAC always produces and verifies MACs that are half the block size in length.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 181, Camellia-MAC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	½ block size (8 bytes)
C_Verify	CKK_CAMELLIA	any	½ block size (8 bytes)

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Camellia key sizes, in bytes.

2.48 Key derivation by data encryption - Camellia

These mechanisms allow derivation of keys using the result of an encryption operation as the key value. They are for use with the C_DeriveKey function.

2.48.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_CAMELLIA_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA

typedef struct CK_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE iv[16];

CK_BYTE_PTR pData;

CK_ULONG length;

} CK_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS;

typedef CK_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS CK_PTR CK_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS_PTR;

2.48.2 Mechanism Parameters

Uses CK_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS, and CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA.

Table 182, Mechanism Parameters for Camellia-based key derivation

CKM_CAMELLIA_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure. Parameter is the data to be encrypted and must be a multiple of 16 long.
CKM_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_CAMELLIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS. Parameter is an 16 byte IV value followed by the data. The data value part must be a multiple of 16 bytes long.

2.49 ARIA

ARIA is a block cipher with 128-bit block size and 128-, 192-, and 256-bit keys, similar to AES. ARIA is described in NSRI “Specification of ARIA”.

Table 183, ARIA Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_ARIA_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_ARIA_ECB	ü					ü
CKM_ARIA_CBC	ü					ü
CKM_ARIA_CBC_PAD	ü					ü
CKM_ARIA_MAC_GENERAL		ü
CKM_ARIA_MAC		ü
CKM_ARIA_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü

2.49.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_ARIA” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_ARIA_KEY_GEN

CKM_ARIA_ECB

CKM_ARIA_CBC

CKM_ARIA_MAC

CKM_ARIA_MAC_GENERAL

CKM_ARIA_CBC_PAD

2.49.2 Aria secret key objects

ARIA secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_ARIA) hold ARIA keys. The following table defines the ARIA secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 184, ARIA Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (16, 24, or 32 bytes)
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3,6	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes.}

The following is a sample template for creating an ARIA secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_ARIA;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “An ARIA secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.49.3 ARIA key generation

The ARIA key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_ARIA_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for Aria.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates ARIA keys with a particular length in bytes, as specified in the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the ARIA key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ARIA key sizes, in bytes.

2.49.4 ARIA-ECB

ARIA-ECB, denoted CKM_ARIA_ECB, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on Aria and electronic codebook mode.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 185, ARIA-ECB: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_WrapKey	CKK_ARIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of block size
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ARIA key sizes, in bytes.

2.49.5 ARIA-CBC

ARIA-CBC, denoted CKM_ARIA_CBC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on ARIA and cipher-block chaining mode.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 186, ARIA-CBC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_Decrypt	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	same as input length	no final part
C_WrapKey	CKK_ARIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of Aria key sizes, in bytes.

2.49.6 ARIA-CBC with PKCS padding

ARIA-CBC with PKCS padding, denoted CKM_ARIA_CBC_PAD, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on ARIA; cipher-block chaining mode; and the block cipher padding method detailed in PKCS #7.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

In addition to being able to wrap and unwrap secret keys, this mechanism can wrap and unwrap RSA, Diffie-Hellman, X9.42 Diffie-Hellman, EC (also related to ECDSA) and DSA private keys (see Section TBA for details). The entries in the table below for data length constraints when wrapping and unwrapping keys do not apply to wrapping and unwrapping private keys.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 187, ARIA-CBC with PKCS Padding: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt	CKK_ARIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_Decrypt	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	between 1 and block size bytes shorter than input length
C_WrapKey	CKK_ARIA	any	input length rounded up to multiple of the block size
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_ARIA	multiple of block size	between 1 and block length bytes shorter than input length

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ARIA key sizes, in bytes.

2.49.7 General-length ARIA-MAC

General-length ARIA -MAC, denoted CKM_ARIA_MAC_GENERAL, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification, based on ARIA and data authentication as defined in [FIPS 113].

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure, which specifies the output length desired from the mechanism.

The output bytes from this mechanism are taken from the start of the final ARIA cipher block produced in the MACing process.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 188, General-length ARIA-MAC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_ARIA	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters
C_Verify	CKK_ARIA	any	1-block size, as specified in parameters

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ARIA key sizes, in bytes.

2.49.8 ARIA-MAC

ARIA-MAC, denoted by CKM_ARIA_MAC, is a special case of the general-length ARIA-MAC mechanism. ARIA-MAC always produces and verifies MACs that are half the block size in length.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 189, ARIA-MAC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_ARIA	any	½ block size (8 bytes)
C_Verify	CKK_ARIA	any	½ block size (8 bytes)

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ARIA key sizes, in bytes.

2.50 Key derivation by data encryption - ARIA

These mechanisms allow derivation of keys using the result of an encryption operation as the key value. They are for use with the C_DeriveKey function.

2.50.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_ARIA_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA

typedef struct CK_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE iv[16];

CK_BYTE_PTR pData;

CK_ULONG length;

} CK_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS;

typedef CK_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS CK_PTR CK_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS_PTR;

2.50.2 Mechanism Parameters

Uses CK_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS, and CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA.

Table 190, Mechanism Parameters for Aria-based key derivation

CKM_ARIA_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure. Parameter is the data to be encrypted and must be a multiple of 16 long.
CKM_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_ARIA_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS. Parameter is an 16 byte IV value followed by the data. The data value part must be a multiple of 16 bytes long.

2.51 SEED

SEED is a symmetric block cipher developed by the South Korean Information Security Agency (KISA). It has a 128-bit key size and a 128-bit block size.

Its specification has been published as Internet [RFC 4269].

RFCs have been published defining the use of SEED in

TLS ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4162.txt

IPsec ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4196.txt

CMS ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4010.txt

TLS cipher suites that use SEED include:

CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x96};

CipherSuite TLS_DH_DSS_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x97};

CipherSuite TLS_DH_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x98};

CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x99};

CipherSuite TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x9A};

CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x9B};

As with any block cipher, it can be used in the ECB, CBC, OFB and CFB modes of operation, as well as in a MAC algorithm such as HMAC.

OIDs have been published for all these uses. A list may be seen at http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.2.410.200004.1.html

Table 191, SEED Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SEED_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_SEED_ECB			ü
CKM_SEED_CBC			ü
CKM_SEED_CBC_PAD	ü					ü
CKM_SEED_MAC_GENERAL			ü
CKM_SEED_MAC				ü
CKM_SEED_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü
CKM_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA							ü

2.51.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SEED” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SEED_KEY_GEN

CKM_SEED_ECB

CKM_SEED_CBC

CKM_SEED_MAC

CKM_SEED_MAC_GENERAL

CKM_SEED_CBC_PAD

For all of these mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO are always 16.

2.51.2 SEED secret key objects

SEED secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_SEED) hold SEED keys. The following table defines the secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 192, SEED Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key value (always 16 bytes long)

^{- Refer to [PKCS11-Base]
table 11 for footnotes.}

The following is a sample template for creating a SEED secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_SEED;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A SEED secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.51.3 SEED key generation

The SEED key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SEED_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for SEED.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates SEED keys.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the SEED key type (specifically, the flags indicating which functions the key supports) may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

2.51.4 SEED-ECB

SEED-ECB, denoted CKM_SEED_ECB, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on SEED and electronic codebook mode.

It does not have a parameter.

2.51.5 SEED-CBC

SEED-CBC, denoted CKM_SEED_CBC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on SEED and cipher-block chaining mode.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

2.51.6 SEED-CBC with PKCS padding

SEED-CBC with PKCS padding, denoted CKM_SEED_CBC_PAD, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on SEED; cipher-block chaining mode; and the block cipher padding method detailed in PKCS #7.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

2.51.7 General-length SEED-MAC

General-length SEED-MAC, denoted CKM_SEED_MAC_GENERAL, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification, based on SEED and data authentication as defined in 0.

It has a parameter, a CK_MAC_GENERAL_PARAMS structure, which specifies the output length desired from the mechanism.

The output bytes from this mechanism are taken from the start of the final cipher block produced in the MACing process.

2.51.8 SEED-MAC

SEED-MAC, denoted by CKM_SEED_MAC, is a special case of the general-length SEED-MAC mechanism. SEED-MAC always produces and verifies MACs that are half the block size in length.

It does not have a parameter.

2.52 Key derivation by data encryption - SEED

These mechanisms allow derivation of keys using the result of an encryption operation as the key value. They are for use with the C_DeriveKey function.

2.52.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_SEED_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA

CKM_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA

typedef struct CK_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE iv[16];

CK_BYTE_PTR pData;

CK_ULONG length;

} CK_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS;

typedef CK_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS CK_PTR CK_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS_PTR;

2.52.2 Mechanism Parameters

Table 193, Mechanism Parameters for SEED-based key derivation

CKM_SEED_ECB_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_KEY_DERIVATION_STRING_DATA structure. Parameter is the data to be encrypted and must be a multiple of 16 long.
CKM_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA	Uses CK_SEED_CBC_ENCRYPT_DATA_PARAMS. Parameter is an 16 byte IV value followed by the data. The data value part must be a multiple of 16 bytes long.

2.53 OTP

2.53.1 Usage overview

OTP tokens represented as PKCS #11 mechanisms may be used in a variety of ways. The usage cases can be categorized according to the type of sought functionality.

2.53.2 Case 1: Generation of OTP values

Figure 1: Retrieving OTP values through C_Sign

Figure 1 shows an integration of PKCS #11 into an application that needs to authenticate users holding OTP tokens. In this particular example, a connected hardware token is used, but a software token is equally possible. The application invokes C_Sign to retrieve the OTP value from the token. In the example, the application then passes the retrieved OTP value to a client API that sends it via the network to an authentication server. The client API may implement a standard authentication protocol such as RADIUS [RFC 2865] or EAP [RFC 3748], or a proprietary protocol such as that used by RSA Security's ACE/Agent^® software.

2.53.3 Case 2: Verification of provided OTP values

Figure 2: Server-side verification of OTP values

Figure 2 illustrates the server-side equivalent of the scenario depicted in Figure 1. In this case, a server application invokes C_Verify with the received OTP value as the signature value to be verified.

2.53.4 Case 3: Generation of OTP keys

Figure 3: Generation of an OTP key

Figure 3 shows an integration of PKCS #11 into an application that generates OTP keys. The application invokes C_GenerateKey to generate an OTP key of a particular type on the token. The key may subsequently be used as a basis to generate OTP values.

2.53.5 OTP objects

2.53.5.1 Key objects

OTP key objects (object class CKO_OTP_KEY) hold secret keys used by OTP tokens. The following table defines the attributes common to all OTP keys, in addition to the attributes defined for secret keys, all of which are inherited by this class:

Table 194: Common OTP key attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_OTP_FORMAT	CK_ULONG	Format of OTP values produced with this key: CK_OTP_FORMAT_DECIMAL = Decimal (default) (UTF8-encoded) CK_OTP_FORMAT_HEXADECIMAL = Hexadecimal (UTF8-encoded) CK_OTP_FORMAT_ALPHANUMERIC = Alphanumeric (UTF8-encoded) CK_OTP_FORMAT_BINARY = Only binary values.
CKA_OTP_LENGTH⁹	CK_ULONG	Default length of OTP values (in the CKA_OTP_FORMAT) produced with this key.
CKA_OTP_USER_FRIENDLY_MODE⁹	CK_BBOOL	Set to CK_TRUE when the token is capable of returning OTPs suitable for human consumption. See the description of CKF_USER_FRIENDLY_OTP below.
CKA_OTP_CHALLENGE_REQUIREMENT⁹	CK_ULONG	Parameter requirements when generating or verifying OTP values with this key: CK_OTP_PARAM_MANDATORY = A challenge must be supplied. CK_OTP_PARAM_OPTIONAL = A challenge may be supplied but need not be. CK_OTP_PARAM_IGNORED = A challenge, if supplied, will be ignored.
CKA_OTP_TIME_REQUIREMENT⁹	CK_ULONG	Parameter requirements when generating or verifying OTP values with this key: CK_OTP_PARAM_MANDATORY = A time value must be supplied. CK_OTP_PARAM_OPTIONAL = A time value may be supplied but need not be. CK_OTP_PARAM_IGNORED = A time value, if supplied, will be ignored.
CKA_OTP_COUNTER_REQUIREMENT⁹	CK_ULONG	Parameter requirements when generating or verifying OTP values with this key: CK_OTP_PARAM_MANDATORY = A counter value must be supplied. CK_OTP_PARAM_OPTIONAL = A counter value may be supplied but need not be. CK_OTP_PARAM_IGNORED = A counter value, if supplied, will be ignored.
CKA_OTP_PIN_REQUIREMENT⁹	CK_ULONG	Parameter requirements when generating or verifying OTP values with this key: CK_OTP_PARAM_MANDATORY = A PIN value must be supplied. CK_OTP_PARAM_OPTIONAL = A PIN value may be supplied but need not be (if not supplied, then library will be responsible for collecting it) CK_OTP_PARAM_IGNORED = A PIN value, if supplied, will be ignored.
CKA_OTP_COUNTER	Byte array	Value of the associated internal counter. Default value is empty (i.e. ulValueLen = 0).
CKA_OTP_TIME	RFC 2279 string	Value of the associated internal UTC time in the form YYYYMMDDhhmmss. Default value is empty (i.e. ulValueLen= 0).
CKA_OTP_USER_IDENTIFIER	RFC 2279 string	Text string that identifies a user associated with the OTP key (may be used to enhance the user experience). Default value is empty (i.e. ulValueLen = 0).
CKA_OTP_SERVICE_IDENTIFIER	RFC 2279 string	Text string that identifies a service that may validate OTPs generated by this key. Default value is empty (i.e. ulValueLen = 0).
CKA_OTP_SERVICE_LOGO	Byte array	Logotype image that identifies a service that may validate OTPs generated by this key. Default value is empty (i.e. ulValueLen = 0).
CKA_OTP_SERVICE_LOGO_TYPE	RFC 2279 string	MIME type of the CKA_OTP_SERVICE_LOGO attribute value. Default value is empty (i.e. ulValueLen = 0).
CKA_VALUE^{1, 4, 6, 7}	Byte array	Value of the key.
CKA_VALUE_LEN^{2, 3}	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value.

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] table 11 for footnotes.

Note: A Cryptoki library may support PIN-code caching in order to reduce user interactions. An OTP-PKCS #11 application should therefore always consult the state of the CKA_OTP_PIN_REQUIREMENT attribute before each call to C_SignInit, as the value of this attribute may change dynamically.

For OTP tokens with multiple keys, the keys may be enumerated using C_FindObjects. The CKA_OTP_SERVICE_IDENTIFIER and/or the CKA_OTP_SERVICE_LOGO attribute may be used to distinguish between keys. The actual choice of key for a particular operation is however application-specific and beyond the scope of this document.

For all OTP keys, the CKA_ALLOWED_MECHANISMS attribute should be set as required.

2.53.6 OTP-related notifications

This document extends the set of defined notifications as follows:

CKN_OTP_CHANGED Cryptoki is informing the application that the OTP for a key on a connected token just changed. This notification is particularly useful when applications wish to display the current OTP value for time-based mechanisms.

2.53.7 OTP mechanisms

The following table shows, for the OTP mechanisms defined in this document, their support by different cryptographic operations. For any particular token, of course, a particular operation may well support only a subset of the mechanisms listed. There is also no guarantee that a token that supports one mechanism for some operation supports any other mechanism for any other operation (or even supports that same mechanism for any other operation).

Table 195: OTP mechanisms vs. applicable functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SECURID_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_SECURID		ü
CKM_HOTP_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_HOTP		ü
CKM_ACTI_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_ACTI		ü

The remainder of this section will present in detail the OTP mechanisms and the parameters that are supplied to them.

2.53.7.1 OTP mechanism parameters

¨ CK_OTP_PARAM_TYPE

CK_OTP_PARAM_TYPE is a value that identifies an OTP parameter type. It is defined as follows:

typedef CK_ULONG CK_OTP_PARAM_TYPE;

The following CK_OTP_PARAM_TYPE types are defined:

Table 196, OTP parameter types

Parameter	Data type	Meaning
CK_OTP_PIN	RFC 2279 string	A UTF8 string containing a PIN for use when computing or verifying PIN-based OTP values.
CK_OTP_CHALLENGE	Byte array	Challenge to use when computing or verifying challenge-based OTP values.
CK_OTP_TIME	RFC 2279 string	UTC time value in the form YYYYMMDDhhmmss to use when computing or verifying time-based OTP values.
CK_OTP_COUNTER	Byte array	Counter value to use when computing or verifying counter-based OTP values.
CK_OTP_FLAGS	CK_FLAGS	Bit flags indicating the characteristics of the sought OTP as defined below.
CK_OTP_OUTPUT_LENGTH	CK_ULONG	Desired output length (overrides any default value). A Cryptoki library will return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID if a provided length value is not supported.
CK_OTP_OUTPUT_FORMAT	CK_ULONG	Returned OTP format (allowed values are the same as for CKA_OTP_FORMAT). This parameter is only intended for C_Sign output, see paragraphs below. When not present, the returned OTP format will be the same as the value of the CKA_OTP_FORMAT attribute for the key in question.
CK_OTP_VALUE	Byte array	An actual OTP value. This parameter type is intended for C_Sign output, see paragraphs below.

The following table defines the possible values for the CK_OTP_FLAGS type:

Table 197: OTP Mechanism Flags

Bit flag	Mask	Meaning
CKF_NEXT_OTP	0x00000001	True (i.e. set) if the OTP computation shall be for the next OTP, rather than the current one (current being interpreted in the context of the algorithm, e.g. for the current counter value or current time window). A Cryptoki library shall return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID if the CKF_NEXT_OTP flag is set and the OTP mechanism in question does not support the concept of “next” OTP or the library is not capable of generating the next OTP[9].
CKF_EXCLUDE_TIME	0x00000002	True (i.e. set) if the OTP computation must not include a time value. Will have an effect only on mechanisms that do include a time value in the OTP computation and then only if the mechanism (and token) allows exclusion of this value. A Cryptoki library shall return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID if exclusion of the value is not allowed.
CKF_EXCLUDE_COUNTER	0x00000004	True (i.e. set) if the OTP computation must not include a counter value. Will have an effect only on mechanisms that do include a counter value in the OTP computation and then only if the mechanism (and token) allows exclusion of this value. A Cryptoki library shall return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID if exclusion of the value is not allowed.
CKF_EXCLUDE_CHALLENGE	0x00000008	True (i.e. set) if the OTP computation must not include a challenge. Will have an effect only on mechanisms that do include a challenge in the OTP computation and then only if the mechanism (and token) allows exclusion of this value. A Cryptoki library shall return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID if exclusion of the value is not allowed.
CKF_EXCLUDE_PIN	0x00000010	True (i.e. set) if the OTP computation must not include a PIN value. Will have an effect only on mechanisms that do include a PIN in the OTP computation and then only if the mechanism (and token) allows exclusion of this value. A Cryptoki library shall return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID if exclusion of the value is not allowed.
CKF_USER_FRIENDLY_OTP	0x00000020	True (i.e. set) if the OTP returned shall be in a form suitable for human consumption. If this flag is set, and the call is successful, then the returned CK_OTP_VALUE shall be a UTF8-encoded printable string. A Cryptoki library shall return CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID if this flag is set when CKA_OTP_USER_FRIENDLY_MODE for the key in question is CK_FALSE.

Note: Even if CKA_OTP_FORMAT is not set to CK_OTP_FORMAT_BINARY, then there may still be value in setting the CKF_USER_FRIENDLY_OTP flag (assuming CKA_OTP_USER_FRIENDLY_MODE is CK_TRUE, of course) if the intent is for a human to read the generated OTP value, since it may become shorter or otherwise better suited for a user. Applications that do not intend to provide a returned OTP value to a user should not set the CKF_USER_FRIENDLY_OTP flag.

¨ CK_OTP_PARAM; CK_OTP_PARAM_PTR

CK_OTP_PARAM is a structure that includes the type, value, and length of an OTP parameter. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_OTP_PARAM {

CK_OTP_PARAM_TYPE type;

CK_VOID_PTR pValue;

CK_ULONG ulValueLen;

} CK_OTP_PARAM;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

type the parameter type

pValue pointer to the value of the parameter

ulValueLen length in bytes of the value

If a parameter has no value, then ulValueLen = 0, and the value of pValue is irrelevant. Note that pValue is a “void” pointer, facilitating the passing of arbitrary values. Both the application and the Cryptoki library must ensure that the pointer can be safely cast to the expected type (i.e., without word-alignment errors).

CK_OTP_PARAM_PTR is a pointer to a CK_OTP_PARAM.

¨ CK_OTP_PARAMS; CK_OTP_PARAMS_PTR

CK_OTP_PARAMS is a structure that is used to provide parameters for OTP mechanisms in a generic fashion. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_OTP_PARAMS {

CK_OTP_PARAM_PTR pParams;

CK_ULONG ulCount;

} CK_OTP_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pParams pointer to an array of OTP parameters

ulCount the number of parameters in the array

CK_OTP_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_OTP_PARAMS.

When calling C_SignInit or C_VerifyInit with a mechanism that takes a CK_OTP_PARAMS structure as a parameter, the CK_OTP_PARAMS structure shall be populated in accordance with the CKA_OTP_X_REQUIREMENT key attributes for the identified key, where X is PIN, CHALLENGE, TIME, or COUNTER.

For example, if CKA_OTP_TIME_REQUIREMENT = CK_OTP_PARAM_MANDATORY, then the CK_OTP_TIME parameter shall be present. If CKA_OTP_TIME_REQUIREMENT = CK_OTP_PARAM_OPTIONAL, then a CK_OTP_TIME parameter may be present. If it is not present, then the library may collect it (during the C_Sign call). If CKA_OTP_TIME_REQUIREMENT = CK_OTP_PARAM_IGNORED, then a provided CK_OTP_TIME parameter will always be ignored. Additionally, a provided CK_OTP_TIME parameter will always be ignored if CKF_EXCLUDE_TIME is set in a CK_OTP_FLAGS parameter. Similarly, if this flag is set, a library will not attempt to collect the value itself, and it will also instruct the token not to make use of any internal value, subject to token policies. It is an error (CKR_MECHANISM_PARAM_INVALID) to set the CKF_EXCLUDE_TIME flag when the CKA_OTP_TIME_REQUIREMENT attribute is CK_OTP_PARAM_MANDATORY.

The above discussion holds for all CKA_OTP_X_REQUIREMENT attributes (i.e., CKA_OTP_PIN_REQUIREMENT, CKA_OTP_CHALLENGE_REQUIREMENT, CKA_OTP_COUNTER_REQUIREMENT, CKA_OTP_TIME_REQUIREMENT). A library may set a particular CKA_OTP_X_REQUIREMENT attribute to CK_OTP_PARAM_OPTIONAL even if it is required by the mechanism as long as the token (or the library itself) has the capability of providing the value to the computation. One example of this is a token with an on-board clock.

In addition, applications may use the CK_OTP_FLAGS, the CK_OTP_OUTPUT_FORMAT and the CKA_OTP_LENGTH parameters to set additional parameters.

¨ CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO, CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO_PTR

CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO is a structure that is returned by all OTP mechanisms in successful calls to C_Sign (C_SignFinal). The structure informs applications of actual parameter values used in particular OTP computations in addition to the OTP value itself. It is used by all mechanisms for which the key belongs to the class CKO_OTP_KEY and is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO {

CK_OTP_PARAM_PTR pParams;

CK_ULONG ulCount;

} CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pParams pointer to an array of OTP parameter values

ulCount the number of parameters in the array

After successful calls to C_Sign or C_SignFinal with an OTP mechanism, the pSignature parameter will be set to point to a CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO structure. One of the parameters in this structure will be the OTP value itself, identified with the CK_OTP_VALUE tag. Other parameters may be present for informational purposes, e.g. the actual time used in the OTP calculation. In order to simplify OTP validations, authentication protocols may permit authenticating parties to send some or all of these parameters in addition to OTP values themselves. Applications should therefore check for their presence in returned CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO values whenever such circumstances apply.

Since C_Sign and C_SignFinal follows the convention described in [PKCS11-Base] Section 5.2 on producing output, a call to C_Sign (or C_SignFinal) with pSignature set to NULL_PTR will return (in the pulSignatureLen parameter) the required number of bytes to hold the CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO structure as well as all the data in all its CK_OTP_PARAM components. If an application allocates a memory block based on this information, it shall therefore not subsequently de-allocate components of such a received value but rather de-allocate the complete CK_OTP_PARAMS structure itself. A Cryptoki library that is called with a non-NULL pSignature pointer will assume that it points to a contiguous memory block of the size indicated by the pulSignatureLen parameter.

When verifying an OTP value using an OTP mechanism, pSignature shall be set to the OTP value itself, e.g. the value of the CK_OTP_VALUE component of a CK_OTP_PARAM structure returned by a call to C_Sign. The CK_OTP_PARAM value supplied in the C_VerifyInit call sets the values to use in the verification operation.

CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO_PTR points to a CK_OTP_SIGNATURE_INFO.

2.53.8 RSA SecurID

2.53.8.1 RSA SecurID secret key objects

RSA SecurID secret key objects (object class CKO_OTP_KEY, key type CKK_SECURID) hold RSA SecurID secret keys. The following table defines the RSA SecurID secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 198, RSA SecurID secret key object attributes

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_OTP_TIME_INTERVAL¹	CK_ULONG	Interval between OTP values produced with this key, in seconds. Default is 60.

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] table 11 for footnotes.

The following is a sample template for creating an RSA SecurID secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_OTP_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_SECURID;

CK_DATE endDate = {...};

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “RSA SecurID secret key object”;

CK_BYTE keyId[]= {...};

CK_ULONG outputFormat = CK_OTP_FORMAT_DECIMAL;

CK_ULONG outputLength = 6;

CK_ULONG needPIN = CK_OTP_PARAM_MANDATORY;

CK_ULONG timeInterval = 60;

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_END_DATE, &endDate, sizeof(endDate)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SIGN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VERIFY, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_ID, keyId, sizeof(keyId)},

{CKA_OTP_FORMAT, &outputFormat, sizeof(outputFormat)},

{CKA_OTP_LENGTH, &outputLength, sizeof(outputLength)},

{CKA_OTP_PIN_REQUIREMENT, &needPIN, sizeof(needPIN)},

{CKA_OTP_TIME_INTERVAL, &timeInterval, sizeof(timeInterval)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.53.8.2 RSA SecurID key generation

The RSA SecurID key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SECURID_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for the RSA SecurID algorithm.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates RSA SecurID keys with a particular set of attributes as specified in the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes at least the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_VALUE_LEN, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the RSA SecurID key type may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of SecurID key sizes, in bytes.

2.53.8.3 SecurID OTP generation and validation

CKM_SECURID is the mechanism for the retrieval and verification of RSA SecurID OTP values.

The mechanism takes a pointer to a CK_OTP_PARAMS structure as a parameter.

When signing or verifying using the CKM_SECURID mechanism, pData shall be set to NULL_PTR and ulDataLen shall be set to 0.

2.53.8.4 Return values

Support for the CKM_SECURID mechanism extends the set of return values for C_Verify with the following values:

· CKR_NEW_PIN_MODE: The supplied OTP was not accepted and the library requests a new OTP computed using a new PIN. The new PIN is set through means out of scope for this document.

· CKR_NEXT_OTP: The supplied OTP was correct but indicated a larger than normal drift in the token's internal state (e.g. clock, counter). To ensure this was not due to a temporary problem, the application should provide the next one-time password to the library for verification.

2.53.9 OATH HOTP

2.53.9.1 OATH HOTP secret key objects

HOTP secret key objects (object class CKO_OTP_KEY, key type CKK_HOTP) hold generic secret keys and associated counter values.

The CKA_OTP_COUNTER value may be set at key generation; however, some tokens may set it to a fixed initial value. Depending on the token’s security policy, this value may not be modified and/or may not be revealed if the object has its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE or its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE.

For HOTP keys, the CKA_OTP_COUNTER value shall be an 8 bytes unsigned integer in big endian (i.e. network byte order) form. The same holds true for a CK_OTP_COUNTER value in a CK_OTP_PARAM structure.

The following is a sample template for creating a HOTP secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_OTP_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_HOTP;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “HOTP secret key object”;

CK_BYTE keyId[]= {...};

CK_ULONG outputFormat = CK_OTP_FORMAT_DECIMAL;

CK_ULONG outputLength = 6;

CK_DATE endDate = {...};

CK_BYTE counterValue[8] = {0};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_END_DATE, &endDate, sizeof(endDate)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SIGN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VERIFY, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_ID, keyId, sizeof(keyId)},

{CKA_OTP_FORMAT, &outputFormat, sizeof(outputFormat)},

{CKA_OTP_LENGTH, &outputLength, sizeof(outputLength)},

{CKA_OTP_COUNTER, counterValue, sizeof(counterValue)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.53.9.2 HOTP key generation

The HOTP key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_HOTP_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for the HOTP algorithm.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates HOTP keys with a particular set of attributes as specified in the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes at least the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_OTP_COUNTER, CKA_VALUE and CKA_VALUE_LEN attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the HOTP key type may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of HOTP key sizes, in bytes.

2.53.9.3 HOTP OTP generation and validation

CKM_HOTP is the mechanism for the retrieval and verification of HOTP OTP values based on the current internal counter, or a provided counter.

The mechanism takes a pointer to a CK_OTP_PARAMS structure as a parameter.

As for the CKM_SECURID mechanism, when signing or verifying using the CKM_HOTP mechanism, pData shall be set to NULL_PTR and ulDataLen shall be set to 0.

For verify operations, the counter value CK_OTP_COUNTER must be provided as a CK_OTP_PARAM parameter to C_VerifyInit. When verifying an OTP value using the CKM_HOTP mechanism, pSignature shall be set to the OTP value itself, e.g. the value of the CK_OTP_VALUE component of a CK_OTP_PARAM structure in the case of an earlier call to C_Sign.

2.53.10 ActivIdentity ACTI

2.53.10.1 ACTI secret key objects

ACTI secret key objects (object class CKO_OTP_KEY, key type CKK_ACTI) hold ActivIdentity ACTI secret keys.

For ACTI keys, the CKA_OTP_COUNTER value shall be an 8 bytes unsigned integer in big endian (i.e. network byte order) form. The same holds true for the CK_OTP_COUNTER value in the CK_OTP_PARAM structure.

The CKA_OTP_TIME value may be set at key generation; however, some tokens may set it to a fixed initial value. Depending on the token’s security policy, this value may not be modified and/or may not be revealed if the object has its CKA_SENSITIVE attribute set to CK_TRUE or its CKA_EXTRACTABLE attribute set to CK_FALSE.

The following is a sample template for creating an ACTI secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_OTP_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_ACTI;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “ACTI secret key object”;

CK_BYTE keyId[]= {...};

CK_ULONG outputFormat = CK_OTP_FORMAT_DECIMAL;

CK_ULONG outputLength = 6;

CK_DATE endDate = {...};

CK_BYTE counterValue[8] = {0};

CK_BYTE value[] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_END_DATE, &endDate, sizeof(endDate)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SIGN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VERIFY, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_ID, keyId, sizeof(keyId)},

{CKA_OTP_FORMAT, &outputFormat,

sizeof(outputFormat)},

{CKA_OTP_LENGTH, &outputLength,

sizeof(outputLength)},

{CKA_OTP_COUNTER, counterValue,

sizeof(counterValue)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.53.10.2 ACTI key generation

The ACTI key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_ACTI_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for the ACTI algorithm.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates ACTI keys with a particular set of attributes as specified in the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes at least the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_VALUE and CKA_VALUE_LEN attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the ACTI key type may be specified in the template for the key, or else are assigned default initial values.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ACTI key sizes, in bytes.

2.53.10.3 ACTI OTP generation and validation

CKM_ACTI is the mechanism for the retrieval and verification of ACTI OTP values.

The mechanism takes a pointer to a CK_OTP_PARAMS structure as a parameter.

When signing or verifying using the CKM_ACTI mechanism, pData shall be set to NULL_PTR and ulDataLen shall be set to 0.

When verifying an OTP value using the CKM_ACTI mechanism, pSignature shall be set to the OTP value itself, e.g. the value of the CK_OTP_VALUE component of a CK_OTP_PARAM structure in the case of an earlier call to C_Sign.

2.54 CT-KIP

2.54.1 Principles of Operation

Figure 4: PKCS #11 and CT-KIP integration

Figure 4 shows an integration of PKCS #11 into an application that generates cryptographic keys through the use of CT-KIP. The application invokes C_DeriveKey to derive a key of a particular type on the token. The key may subsequently be used as a basis to e.g., generate one-time password values. The application communicates with a CT-KIP server that participates in the key derivation and stores a copy of the key in its database. The key is transferred to the server in wrapped form, after a call to C_WrapKey. The server authenticates itself to the client and the client verifies the authentication by calls to C_Verify.

2.54.2 Mechanisms

The following table shows, for the mechanisms defined in this document, their support by different cryptographic operations. For any particular token, of course, a particular operation may well support only a subset of the mechanisms listed. There is also no guarantee that a token that supports one mechanism for some operation supports any other mechanism for any other operation (or even supports that same mechanism for any other operation).

Table 199: CT-KIP Mechanisms vs. applicable functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_KIP_DERIVE							ü
CKM_KIP_WRAP						ü
CKM_KIP_MAC		ü

The remainder of this section will present in detail the mechanisms and the parameters that are supplied to them.

2.54.3 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_KIP_DERIVE

CKM_KIP_WRAP

CKM_KIP_MAC

2.54.4 CT-KIP Mechanism parameters

¨ CK_KIP_PARAMS; CK_KIP_PARAMS_PTR

CK_KIP_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to all the CT-KIP related mechanisms: The CKM_KIP_DERIVE key derivation mechanism, the CKM_KIP_WRAP key wrap and key unwrap mechanism, and the CKM_KIP_MAC signature mechanism. The structure is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_KIP_PARAMS {

CK_MECHANISM_PTR pMechanism;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hKey;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSeed;

CK_ULONG ulSeedLen;

} CK_KIP_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pMechanism pointer to the underlying cryptographic mechanism (e.g. AES, SHA-256), see further 0, Appendix D

hKey handle to a key that will contribute to the entropy of the derived key (CKM_KIP_DERIVE) or will be used in the MAC operation (CKM_KIP_MAC)

pSeed pointer to an input seed

ulSeedLen length in bytes of the input seed

CK_KIP_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_KIP_PARAMS structure.

2.54.5 CT-KIP key derivation

The CT-KIP key derivation mechanism, denoted CKM_KIP_DERIVE, is a key derivation mechanism that is capable of generating secret keys of potentially any type, subject to token limitations.

It takes a parameter of type CK_KIP_PARAMS which allows for the passing of the desired underlying cryptographic mechanism as well as some other data. In particular, when the hKey parameter is a handle to an existing key, that key will be used in the key derivation in addition to the hBaseKey of C_DeriveKey. The pSeed parameter may be used to seed the key derivation operation.

The mechanism derives a secret key with a particular set of attributes as specified in the attributes of the template for the key.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the key type may be specified in the template for the key, or else will be assigned default initial values. Since the mechanism is generic, the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute should be set in the template, if the key is to be used with a particular mechanism.

2.54.6 CT-KIP key wrap and key unwrap

The CT-KIP key wrap and unwrap mechanism, denoted CKM_KIP_WRAP, is a key wrap mechanism that is capable of wrapping and unwrapping generic secret keys.

It takes a parameter of type CK_KIP_PARAMS, which allows for the passing of the desired underlying cryptographic mechanism as well as some other data. It does not make use of the hKey parameter of CK_KIP_PARAMS.

2.54.7 CT-KIP signature generation

The CT-KIP signature (MAC) mechanism, denoted CKM_KIP_MAC, is a mechanism used to produce a message authentication code of arbitrary length. The keys it uses are secret keys.

It takes a parameter of type CK_KIP_PARAMS, which allows for the passing of the desired underlying cryptographic mechanism as well as some other data. The mechanism does not make use of the pSeed and the ulSeedLen parameters of CT_KIP_PARAMS.

This mechanism produces a MAC of the length specified by pulSignatureLen parameter in calls to C_Sign.

If a call to C_Sign with this mechanism fails, then no output will be generated.

2.55 GOST 28147-89

GOST 28147-89 is a block cipher with 64-bit block size and 256-bit keys.

Table 200, GOST 28147-89 Mechanisms vs. Functions

Mechanism	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_GOST28147_KEY_GEN					ü
CKM_GOST28147_ECB	ü					ü
CKM_GOST28147	ü					ü
CKM_GOST28147_MAC		ü
CKM_GOST28147_KEY_WRAP						ü

2.55.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_GOST28147” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects and domain parameter objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_GOST28147_KEY_GEN

CKM_GOST28147_ECB

CKM_GOST28147

CKM_GOST28147_MAC

CKM_GOST28147_KEY_WRAP

2.55.2 GOST 28147-89 secret key objects

GOST 28147‑89 secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_GOST28147) hold GOST 28147‑89 keys. The following table defines the GOST 28147‑89 secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 201, GOST 28147-89 Secret Key Object Attributes

Attribute

Data type

Meaning

CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7

Byte array

32 bytes in little endian order

CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS^1,3,5

Byte array

DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST 28147‑89.

When key is used the domain parameter object of key type CKK_GOST28147 must be specified with the same attribute CKA_OBJECT_ID

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] Table 11 for footnotes

The following is a sample template for creating a GOST 28147‑89 secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_GOST28147;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A GOST 28147-89 secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[32] = {...};

CK_BYTE params_oid[] = {0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x1f, 0x00};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS, params_oid, sizeof(params_oid)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.55.3 GOST 28147-89 domain parameter objects

GOST 28147‑89 domain parameter objects (object class CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS, key type CKK_GOST28147) hold GOST 28147‑89 domain parameters.

The following table defines the GOST 28147‑89 domain parameter object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 202, GOST 28147-89 Domain Parameter Object Attributes

Attribute	Data Type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE¹	Byte array	DER-encoding of the domain parameters as it was introduced in [4] section 8.1 (type Gost28147-89-ParamSetParameters)
CKA_OBJECT_ID¹	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the domain parameters

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] Table 11 for footnotes

For any particular token, there is no guarantee that a token supports domain parameters loading up and/or fetching out. Furthermore, applications, that make direct use of domain parameters objects, should take in account that CKA_VALUE attribute may be inaccessible.

The following is a sample template for creating a GOST 28147‑89 domain parameter object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_GOST28147;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A GOST 28147-89 cryptographic parameters object”;

CK_BYTE oid[] = {0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x1f, 0x00};

CK_BYTE value[] = {

0x30,0x62,0x04,0x40,0x4c,0xde,0x38,0x9c,0x29,0x89,0xef,0xb6,

0xff,0xeb,0x56,0xc5,0x5e,0xc2,0x9b,0x02,0x98,0x75,0x61,0x3b,

0x11,0x3f,0x89,0x60,0x03,0x97,0x0c,0x79,0x8a,0xa1,0xd5,0x5d,

0xe2,0x10,0xad,0x43,0x37,0x5d,0xb3,0x8e,0xb4,0x2c,0x77,0xe7,

0xcd,0x46,0xca,0xfa,0xd6,0x6a,0x20,0x1f,0x70,0xf4,0x1e,0xa4,

0xab,0x03,0xf2,0x21,0x65,0xb8,0x44,0xd8,0x02,0x01,0x00,0x02,

0x01,0x40,0x30,0x0b,0x06,0x07,0x2a,0x85,0x03,0x02,0x02,0x0e,

0x00,0x05,0x00

};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_OBJECT_ID, oid, sizeof(oid)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.55.4 GOST 28147-89 key generation

The GOST 28147‑89 key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_GOST28147_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for GOST 28147‑89.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes supported by the GOST 28147‑89 key type may be specified for objects of object class CKO_SECRET_KEY.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO are not used.

2.55.5 GOST 28147-89-ECB

GOST 28147‑89-ECB, denoted CKM_GOST28147_ECB, is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on GOST 28147‑89 and electronic codebook mode.

It does not have a parameter.

This mechanism can wrap and unwrap any secret key. Of course, a particular token may not be able to wrap/unwrap every secret key that it supports.

For wrapping (C_WrapKey), the mechanism encrypts the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped, padded on the trailing end with up to block size so that the resulting length is a multiple of the block size.

For unwrapping (C_UnwrapKey), the mechanism decrypts the wrapped key, and truncates the result according to the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of the template and, if it has one, and the key type supports it, the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template. The mechanism contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new key.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 203, GOST 28147-89-ECB: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt	CKK_GOST28147	Multiple of block size	Same as input length
C_Decrypt	CKK_GOST28147	Multiple of block size	Same as input length
C_WrapKey	CKK_GOST28147	Any	Input length rounded up to multiple of block size
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_GOST28147	Multiple of block size	Determined by type of key being unwrapped

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.55.6 GOST 28147-89 encryption mode except ECB

GOST 28147‑89 encryption mode except ECB, denoted CKM_GOST28147, is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on [GOST 28147‑89] and CFB, counter mode, and additional CBC mode defined in [RFC 4357] section 2. Encryption’s parameters are specified in object identifier of attribute CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS.

It has a parameter, which is an 8-byte initialization vector. This parameter may be omitted then a zero initialization vector is used.

This mechanism can wrap and unwrap any secret key. Of course, a particular token may not be able to wrap/unwrap every secret key that it supports.

For wrapping (C_WrapKey), the mechanism encrypts the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped.

For unwrapping (C_UnwrapKey), the mechanism decrypts the wrapped key, and contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new key.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 204, GOST 28147-89 encryption modes except ECB: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Encrypt	CKK_GOST28147	Any	For counter mode and CFB is the same as input length. For CBC is the same as input length padded on the trailing end with up to block size so that the resulting length is a multiple of the block size
C_Decrypt	CKK_GOST28147	Any
C_WrapKey	CKK_GOST28147	Any
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_GOST28147	Any

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.55.7 GOST 28147-89-MAC

GOST 28147-89-MAC, denoted CKM_GOST28147_MAC, is a mechanism for data integrity and authentication based on GOST 28147-89 and key meshing algorithms [RFC 4357] section 2.3.

MACing parameters are specified in object identifier of attribute CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS.

The output bytes from this mechanism are taken from the start of the final GOST 28147‑89 cipher block produced in the MACing process.

It has a parameter, which is an 8-byte MAC initialization vector. This parameter may be omitted then a zero initialization vector is used.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 205, GOST28147-89-MAC: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_GOST28147	Any	4 bytes
C_Verify	CKK_GOST28147	Any	4 bytes

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.55.8 GOST 28147-89 keys wrapping/unwrapping with GOST 28147-89

GOST 28147‑89 keys as a KEK (key encryption keys) for encryption GOST 28147‑89 keys, denoted by CKM_GOST28147_KEY_WRAP, is a mechanism for key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on GOST 28147‑89. Its purpose is to encrypt and decrypt keys have been generated by key generation mechanism for GOST 28147‑89.

For wrapping (C_WrapKey), the mechanism first computes MAC from the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped and then encrypts in ECB mode the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped. The result is 32 bytes of the key that is wrapped and 4 bytes of MAC.

For unwrapping (C_UnwrapKey), the mechanism first decrypts in ECB mode the 32 bytes of the key that was wrapped and then computes MAC from the unwrapped key. Then compared together 4 bytes MAC has computed and 4 bytes MAC of the input. If these two MACs do not match the wrapped key is disallowed. The mechanism contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the unwrapped key.

It has a parameter, which is an 8-byte MAC initialization vector. This parameter may be omitted then a zero initialization vector is used.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table:

Table 206, GOST 28147-89 keys as KEK: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_WrapKey	CKK_GOST28147	32 bytes	36 bytes
C_UnwrapKey	CKK_GOST28147	32 bytes	36 bytes

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.56 GOST R 34.11-94

GOST R 34.11-94 is a mechanism for message digesting, following the hash algorithm with 256-bit message digest defined in [GOST R 34.11-94].

Table 207, GOST R 34.11-94 Mechanisms vs. Functions

Mechanism	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_GOSTR3411				ü
CKM_GOSTR3411_HMAC		ü

2.56.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_GOSTR3411” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of domain parameter objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_GOSTR3411

CKM_GOSTR3411_HMAC

2.56.2 GOST R 34.11-94 domain parameter objects

GOST R 34.11-94 domain parameter objects (object class CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS, key type CKK_GOSTR3411) hold GOST R 34.11-94 domain parameters.

The following table defines the GOST R 34.11-94 domain parameter object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 208, GOST R 34.11-94 Domain Parameter Object Attributes

Attribute	Data Type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE¹	Byte array	DER-encoding of the domain parameters as it was introduced in [4] section 8.2 (type GostR3411-94-ParamSetParameters)
CKA_OBJECT_ID¹	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the domain parameters

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] Table 11 for footnotes

The following is a sample template for creating a GOST R 34.11-94 domain parameter object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_GOSTR3411;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A GOST R34.11-94 cryptographic parameters object”;

CK_BYTE oid[] = {0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x1e, 0x00};

CK_BYTE value[] = {

0x30,0x64,0x04,0x40,0x4e,0x57,0x64,0xd1,0xab,0x8d,0xcb,0xbf,

0x94,0x1a,0x7a,0x4d,0x2c,0xd1,0x10,0x10,0xd6,0xa0,0x57,0x35,

0x8d,0x38,0xf2,0xf7,0x0f,0x49,0xd1,0x5a,0xea,0x2f,0x8d,0x94,

0x62,0xee,0x43,0x09,0xb3,0xf4,0xa6,0xa2,0x18,0xc6,0x98,0xe3,

0xc1,0x7c,0xe5,0x7e,0x70,0x6b,0x09,0x66,0xf7,0x02,0x3c,0x8b,

0x55,0x95,0xbf,0x28,0x39,0xb3,0x2e,0xcc,0x04,0x20,0x00,0x00,

0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,

0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00

};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_OBJECT_ID, oid, sizeof(oid)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.56.3 GOST R 34.11-94 digest

GOST R 34.11-94 digest, denoted CKM_GOSTR3411, is a mechanism for message digesting based on GOST R 34.11-94 hash algorithm [GOST R 34.11-94].

As a parameter this mechanism utilizes a DER-encoding of the object identifier. A mechanism parameter may be missed then parameters of the object identifier id-GostR3411-94-CryptoProParamSet [RFC 4357] (section 11.2) must be used.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table. For single-part digesting, the data and the digest may begin at the same location in memory.

Table 209, GOST R 34.11-94: Data Length

Function	Input length	Digest length
C_Digest	Any	32 bytes

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.56.4 GOST R 34.11-94 HMAC

GOST R 34.11-94 HMAC mechanism, denoted CKM_GOSTR3411_HMAC, is a mechanism for signatures and verification. It uses the HMAC construction, based on the GOST R 34.11-94 hash function [GOST R 34.11-94] and core HMAC algorithm [RFC 2104]. The keys it uses are of generic key type CKK_GENERIC_SECRET or CKK_GOST28147.

To be conformed to GOST R 34.11-94 hash algorithm [GOST R 34.11-94] the block length of core HMAC algorithm is 32 bytes long (see [RFC 2104] section 2, and [RFC 4357] section 3).

Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism are of 32 bytes long.

Constraints on the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table:

Table 210, GOST R 34.11-94 HMAC: Key And Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature length
C_Sign	CKK_GENERIC_SECRET or CKK_GOST28147	Any	32 byte
C_Verify	CKK_GENERIC_SECRET or CKK_GOST28147	Any	32 bytes

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.57 GOST R 34.10-2001

GOST R 34.10-2001 is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part signatures and verification, following the digital signature algorithm defined in [GOST R 34.10-2001].

Table 211, GOST R34.10-2001 Mechanisms vs. Functions

Mechanism	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_GOSTR3410_KEY_PAIR_GEN					ü
CKM_GOSTR3410		ü¹
CKM_GOSTR3410_WITH_GOSTR3411		ü
CKM_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP						ü
CKM_GOSTR3410_DERIVE							ü

¹ Single-part operations only

2.57.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_GOSTR3410” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects and domain parameter objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_GOSTR3410_KEY_PAIR_GEN

CKM_GOSTR3410

CKM_GOSTR3410_WITH_GOSTR3411

CKM_GOSTR3410

CKM_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP

CKM_GOSTR3410_DERIVE

2.57.2 GOST R 34.10-2001 public key objects

GOST R 34.10-2001 public key objects (object class CKO_PUBLIC_KEY, key type CKK_GOSTR3410) hold GOST R 34.10-2001 public keys.

The following table defines the GOST R 34.10-2001 public key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 212, GOST R 34.10-2001 Public Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data Type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4	Byte array	64 bytes for public key; 32 bytes for each coordinates X and Y of elliptic curve point P(X, Y) in little endian order
CKA_GOSTR3410_PARAMS^1,3	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST R 34.10-2001. When key is used the domain parameter object of key type CKK_GOSTR3410 must be specified with the same attribute CKA_OBJECT_ID
CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS^1,3,8	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST R 34.11-94. When key is used the domain parameter object of key type CKK_GOSTR3411 must be specified with the same attribute CKA_OBJECT_ID
CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS⁸	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST 28147‑89. When key is used the domain parameter object of key type CKK_GOST28147 must be specified with the same attribute CKA_OBJECT_ID. The attribute value may be omitted

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] Table 11 for footnotes

The following is a sample template for creating an GOST R 34.10-2001 public key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PUBLIC_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_GOSTR3410;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A GOST R34.10-2001 public key object”;

CK_BYTE gostR3410params_oid[] =

{0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x23, 0x00};

CK_BYTE gostR3411params_oid[] =

{0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x1e, 0x00};

CK_BYTE gost28147params_oid[] =

{0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x1f, 0x00};

CK_BYTE value[64] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_GOSTR3410_PARAMS, gostR3410params_oid, sizeof(gostR3410params_oid)},

{CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS, gostR3411params_oid, sizeof(gostR3411params_oid)},

{CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS, gost28147params_oid, sizeof(gost28147params_oid)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.57.3 GOST R 34.10-2001 private key objects

GOST R 34.10-2001 private key objects (object class CKO_PRIVATE_KEY, key type CKK_GOSTR3410) hold GOST R 34.10-2001 private keys.

The following table defines the GOST R 34.10-2001 private key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 213, GOST R 34.10-2001 Private Key Object Attributes

Attribute	Data Type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	32 bytes for private key in little endian order
CKA_GOSTR3410_PARAMS^1,4,6	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST R 34.10-2001. When key is used the domain parameter object of key type CKK_GOSTR3410 must be specified with the same attribute CKA_OBJECT_ID
CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS^1,4,6,8	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST R 34.11-94. When key is used the domain parameter object of key type CKK_GOSTR3411 must be specified with the same attribute CKA_OBJECT_ID
CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS^4,6,8	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST 28147‑89. When key is used the domain parameter object of key type CKK_GOST28147 must be specified with the same attribute CKA_OBJECT_ID. The attribute value may be omitted

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] Table 11 for footnotes

Note that when generating an GOST R 34.10-2001 private key, the GOST R 34.10-2001 domain parameters are not specified in the key’s template. This is because GOST R 34.10-2001 private keys are only generated as part of an GOST R 34.10-2001 key pair, and the GOST R 34.10-2001 domain parameters for the pair are specified in the template for the GOST R 34.10-2001 public key.

The following is a sample template for creating an GOST R 34.10-2001 private key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_PRIVATE_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_GOSTR3410;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A GOST R34.10-2001 private key object”;

CK_BYTE subject[] = {...};

CK_BYTE id[] = {123};

CK_BYTE gostR3410params_oid[] =

{0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x23, 0x00};

CK_BYTE gostR3411params_oid[] =

{0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x1e, 0x00};

CK_BYTE gost28147params_oid[] =

{0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x1f, 0x00};

CK_BYTE value[32] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SUBJECT, subject, sizeof(subject)},

{CKA_ID, id, sizeof(id)},

{CKA_SENSITIVE, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_SIGN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_GOSTR3410_PARAMS, gostR3410params_oid, sizeof(gostR3410params_oid)},

{CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS, gostR3411params_oid, sizeof(gostR3411params_oid)},

{CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS, gost28147params_oid, sizeof(gost28147params_oid)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.57.4 GOST R 34.10-2001 domain parameter objects

GOST R 34.10-2001 domain parameter objects (object class CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS, key type CKK_GOSTR3410) hold GOST R 34.10‑2001 domain parameters.

The following table defines the GOST R 34.10-2001 domain parameter object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 214, GOST R 34.10-2001 Domain Parameter Object Attributes

Attribute	Data Type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE¹	Byte array	DER-encoding of the domain parameters as it was introduced in [4] section 8.4 (type GostR3410-2001-ParamSetParameters)
CKA_OBJECT_ID¹	Byte array	DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the domain parameters

Refer to [PKCS11-Base] Table 11 for footnotes

The following is a sample template for creating a GOST R 34.10-2001 domain parameter object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_GOSTR3410;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A GOST R34.10-2001 cryptographic parameters object”;

CK_BYTE oid[] =

{0x06, 0x07, 0x2a, 0x85, 0x03, 0x02, 0x02, 0x23, 0x00};

CK_BYTE value[] = {

0x30,0x81,0x90,0x02,0x01,0x07,0x02,0x20,0x5f,0xbf,0xf4,0x98,

0xaa,0x93,0x8c,0xe7,0x39,0xb8,0xe0,0x22,0xfb,0xaf,0xef,0x40,

0x56,0x3f,0x6e,0x6a,0x34,0x72,0xfc,0x2a,0x51,0x4c,0x0c,0xe9,

0xda,0xe2,0x3b,0x7e,0x02,0x21,0x00,0x80,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,

0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,

0x00,0x04,0x31,0x02,0x21,0x00,0x80,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,

0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x01,0x50,0xfe,

0x8a,0x18,0x92,0x97,0x61,0x54,0xc5,0x9c,0xfc,0x19,0x3a,0xcc,

0xf5,0xb3,0x02,0x01,0x02,0x02,0x20,0x08,0xe2,0xa8,0xa0,0xe6,

0x51,0x47,0xd4,0xbd,0x63,0x16,0x03,0x0e,0x16,0xd1,0x9c,0x85,

0xc9,0x7f,0x0a,0x9c,0xa2,0x67,0x12,0x2b,0x96,0xab,0xbc,0xea,

0x7e,0x8f,0xc8

};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_OBJECT_ID, oid, sizeof(oid)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.57.5 GOST R 34.10-2001 mechanism parameters

♦ CK_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS

CK_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pWrapOID;

CK_ULONG ulWrapOIDLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pUKM;

CK_ULONG ulUKMLen;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hKey;

} CK_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pWrapOID		pointer to a data with DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST 28147‑89. If pointer takes NULL_PTR value in C_WrapKey operation then parameters are specified in object identifier of attribute CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS must be used. For C_UnwrapKey operation the pointer is not used and must take NULL_PTR value anytime
ulWrapOIDLen		length of data with DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating the data object type of GOST 28147‑89
pUKM		pointer to a data with UKM. If pointer takes NULL_PTR value in C_WrapKey operation then random value of UKM will be used. If pointer takes non-NULL_PTR value in C_UnwrapKey operation then the pointer value will be compared with UKM value of wrapped key. If these two values do not match the wrapped key will be rejected
ulUKMLen		length of UKM data. If pUKM-pointer is different from NULL_PTR then equal to 8
hKey		key handle. Key handle of a sender for C_WrapKey operation. Key handle of a receiver for C_UnwrapKey operation. When key handle takes CK_INVALID_HANDLE value then an ephemeral (one time) key pair of a sender will be used

CK_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS.

♦ CK_GOSTR3410_DERIVE_PARAMS

CK_GOSTR3410_DERIVE_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_GOSTR3410_DERIVE mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_GOSTR3410_DERIVE_PARAMS {

CK_EC_KDF_TYPE kdf;

CK_BYTE_PTR pPublicData;

CK_ULONG ulPublicDataLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pUKM;

CK_ULONG ulUKMLen;

} CK_GOSTR3410_DERIVE_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

kdf		additional key diversification algorithm identifier. Possible values are CKD_NULL and CKD_CPDIVERSIFY_KDF. In case of CKD_NULL, result of the key derivation function described in [RFC 4357], section 5.2 is used directly; In case of CKD_CPDIVERSIFY_KDF, the resulting key value is additionally processed with algorithm from [RFC 4357], section 6.5.
pPublicData¹		pointer to data with public key of a receiver
ulPublicDataLen		length of data with public key of a receiver (must be 64)
pUKM		pointer to a UKM data
ulUKMLen		length of UKM data in bytes (must be 8)

^{1 Public key of a
receiver is an octet string of 64 bytes long. The public key octets correspond
to the concatenation of X and Y coordinates of a point. Any one of them is 32 bytes
long and represented in little endian order.}

CK_GOSTR3410_DERIVE_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_GOSTR3410_DERIVE_PARAMS.

2.57.6 GOST R 34.10-2001 key pair generation

The GOST R 34.10‑2001 key pair generation mechanism, denoted CKM_GOSTR3410_KEY_PAIR_GEN, is a key pair generation mechanism for GOST R 34.10‑2001.

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates GOST R 34.10‑2001 public/private key pairs with particular GOST R 34.10‑2001 domain parameters, as specified in the CKA_GOSTR3410_PARAMS, CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS, and CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS attributes of the template for the public key. Note that CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS attribute may not be present in the template.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new public key and the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE, CKA_VALUE, and CKA_GOSTR3410_PARAMS, CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS, CKA_GOST28147_PARAMS attributes to the new private key.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.57.7 GOST R 34.10-2001 without hashing

The GOST R 34.10‑2001 without hashing mechanism, denoted CKM_GOSTR3410, is a mechanism for single-part signatures and verification for GOST R 34.10‑2001. (This mechanism corresponds only to the part of GOST R 34.10‑2001 that processes the 32-bytes hash value; it does not compute the hash value.)

This mechanism does not have a parameter.

For the purposes of these mechanisms, a GOST R 34.10‑2001 signature is an octet string of 64 bytes long. The signature octets correspond to the concatenation of the GOST R 34.10‑2001 values s and r’, both represented as a 32 bytes octet string in big endian order with the most significant byte first [RFC 4490] section 3.2, and [RFC 4491] section 2.2.2.

The input for the mechanism is an octet string of 32 bytes long with digest has computed by means of GOST R 34.11‑94 hash algorithm in the context of signed or should be signed message.

Table 215, GOST R 34.10-2001 without hashing: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign¹	CKK_GOSTR3410	32 bytes	64 bytes
C_Verify¹	CKK_GOSTR3410	32 bytes	64 bytes

¹ Single-part operations only.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.57.8 GOST R 34.10-2001 with GOST R 34.11-94

The GOST R 34.10‑2001 with GOST R 34.11‑94, denoted CKM_GOSTR3410_WITH_GOSTR3411, is a mechanism for signatures and verification for GOST R 34.10‑2001. This mechanism computes the entire GOST R 34.10‑2001 specification, including the hashing with GOST R 34.11‑94 hash algorithm.

As a parameter this mechanism utilizes a DER-encoding of the object identifier indicating GOST R 34.11‑94 data object type. A mechanism parameter may be missed then parameters are specified in object identifier of attribute CKA_GOSTR3411_PARAMS must be used.

The input for the mechanism is signed or should be signed message of any length. Single- and multiple-part signature operations are available.

Table 216, GOST R 34.10-2001 with GOST R 34.11-94: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length
C_Sign	CKK_GOSTR3410	Any	64 bytes
C_Verify	CKK_GOSTR3410	Any	64 bytes

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.57.9 GOST 28147-89 keys wrapping/unwrapping with GOST R 34.10-2001

GOST R 34.10-2001 keys as a KEK (key encryption keys) for encryption GOST 28147 keys, denoted by CKM_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP, is a mechanism for key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on GOST R 34.10-2001. Its purpose is to encrypt and decrypt keys have been generated by key generation mechanism for GOST 28147‑89. An encryption algorithm from [RFC 4490] (section 5.2) must be used. Encrypted key is a DER-encoded structure of ASN.1 GostR3410-KeyTransport type [RFC 4490] section 4.2.

It has a parameter, a CK_GOSTR3410_KEY_WRAP_PARAMS structure defined in section 2.57.5.

For unwrapping (C_UnwrapKey), the mechanism decrypts the wrapped key, and contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new key.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure are not used.

2.57.10 Common key derivation with assistance of GOST R 34.10-2001 keys

Common key derivation, denoted CKM_GOSTR3410_DERIVE, is a mechanism for key derivation with assistance of GOST R 34.10‑2001 private and public keys. The key of the mechanism must be of object class CKO_DOMAIN_PARAMETERS and key type CKK_GOSTR3410. An algorithm for key derivation from [RFC 4357] (section 5.2) must be used.

The mechanism contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new private key. All other attributes must be specified in a template for creating private key object.

2.58 ChaCha20

ChaCha20 is a secret-key stream cipher described in [CHACHA].

Table 217, ChaCha20 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_CHACHA20_KEY_GEN					✓
CKM_CHACHA20	✓					✓

2.58.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_CHACHA20” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_CHACHA20_KEY_GEN

CKM_CHACHA20

2.58.2 ChaCha20 secret key objects

ChaCha20 secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_CHACHA20) hold ChaCha20 keys. The following table defines the ChaCha20 secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 218, ChaCha20 Secret Key Object

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key length is fixed at 256 bits. Bit length restricted to a byte array.
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

The following is a sample template for creating a ChaCha20 secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_CHACHA20;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A ChaCha20 secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[32] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

CKA_CHECK_VALUE: The value of this attribute is derived from the key object by taking the first three bytes of the SHA-1 hash of the ChaCha20 secret key object’s CKA_VALUE attribute.

2.58.3 ChaCha20 mechanism parameters

¨ CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS; CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS_PTR

CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS provides the parameters to the CKM_CHACHA20 mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pBlockCounter;

CK_ULONG blockCounterBits;

CK_BYTE_PTR pNonce;

CK_ULONG ulNonceBits;

} CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pBlockCounter pointer to block counter

ulblockCounterBits length of block counter in bits (can be either 32 or 64)

pNonce nonce (This should be never re-used with the same key.)

ulNonceBits length of nonce in bits (is 64 for original, 96 for IETF and 192 for xchacha20 variant)

The block counter is used to address 512 bit blocks in the stream. In certain settings (e.g. disk encryption) it is necessary to address these blocks in random order, thus this counter is exposed here.

CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS.

2.58.4 ChaCha20 key generation

The ChaCha20 key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_CHACHA20_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for ChaCha20.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates ChaCha20 keys of 256 bits.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of key sizes in bytes. As a practical matter, the key size for ChaCha20 is fixed at 256 bits.

2.58.5 ChaCha20 mechanism

ChaCha20, denoted CKM_CHACHA20, is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption based on the ChaCha20 stream cipher. It comes in 3 variants, which only differ in the size and handling of their nonces, affecting the safety of using random nonces and the maximum size that can be encrypted safely.

Chacha20 has a parameter, CK_CHACHA20_PARAMS, which indicates the nonce and initial block counter value.

Constraints on key types and the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table:

Table 219, ChaCha20: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	ChaCha20	Any / only up to 256 GB in case of IETF variant	Same as input length	No final part
C_Decrypt	ChaCha20	Any / only up to 256 GB in case of IETF variant	Same as input length	No final part

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ChaCha20 key sizes, in bits.

Table 220, ChaCha20: Nonce and block counter lengths

Variant	Nonce	Block counter	Maximum message	Nonce generation
original	64 bit	64 bit	Virtually unlimited	1^st msg: nonce₀=random n^th msg: nonce_n-1++
IETF	96 bit	32 bit	Max ~256 GB	1^st msg: nonce₀=random n^th msg: nonce_n-1++
XChaCha20	192 bit	64 bit	Virtually unlimited	Each nonce can be randomly generated.

Nonces must not ever be reused with the same key. However due to the birthday paradox the first two variants cannot guarantee that randomly generated nonces are never repeating. Thus the recommended way to handle this is to generate the first nonce randomly, then increase this for follow-up messages. Only the last (XChaCha20) has large enough nonces so that it is virtually impossible to trigger with randomly generated nonces the birthday paradox.

2.59 Salsa20

Salsa20 is a secret-key stream cipher described in [SALSA].

Table 221, Salsa20 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_SALSA20_KEY_GEN					✓
CKM_SALSA20	✓					✓

2.59.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_SALSA20” and “CKK_SALSA20” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_SALSA20_KEY_GEN

CKM_SALSA20

2.59.2 Salsa20 secret key objects

Salsa20 secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_SALSA20) hold Salsa20 keys. The following table defines the Salsa20 secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 222, ChaCha20 Secret Key Object

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key length is fixed at 256 bits. Bit length restricted to a byte array.
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

The following is a sample template for creating a Salsa20 secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_SALSA20;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Salsa20 secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[32] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_ENCRYPT, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

CKA_CHECK_VALUE: The value of this attribute is derived from the key object by taking the first three bytes of the SHA-1 hash of the ChaCha20 secret key object’s CKA_VALUE attribute.

2.59.3 Salsa20 mechanism parameters

¨ CK_SALSA20_PARAMS; CK_SALSA20_PARAMS_PTR

CK_SALSA20_PARAMS provides the parameters to the CKM_SALSA20 mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SALSA20_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pBlockCounter;

CK_BYTE_PTR pNonce;

CK_ULONG ulNonceBits;

} CK_SALSA20_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pBlockCounter pointer to block counter (64 bits)

pNonce nonce

ulNonceBits size of the nonce in bits (64 for classic and 192 for XSalsa20)

CK_SALSA20_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to CK_SALSA20_PARAMS.

2.59.4 Salsa20 key generation

The Salsa20 key generation mechanism, denoted CKM_SALSA20_KEY_GEN, is a key generation mechanism for Salsa20.

It does not have a parameter.

The mechanism generates Salsa20 keys of 256 bits.

2.59.5 Salsa20 mechanism

Salsa20, denoted CKM_SALSA20, is a mechanism for single and multiple-part encryption and decryption based on the Salsa20 stream cipher. Salsa20 comes in two variants which only differ in the size and handling of their nonces, affecting the safety of using random nonces.

Salsa20 has a parameter, CK_SALSA20_PARAMS, which indicates the nonce and initial block counter value.

Constraints on key types and the length of input and output data are summarized in the following table:

Table 223, Salsa20: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Input length	Output length	Comments
C_Encrypt	Salsa20	Any	Same as input length	No final part
C_Decrypt	Salsa20	Any	Same as input length	No final part

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of ChaCha20 key sizes, in bits.

Table 224, Salsa20: Nonce sizes

Variant

Nonce

Maximum message

Nonce generation

original

64 bit

Virtually unlimited

1^st msg: nonce₀=random

n^th msg: nonce_n-1++

XSalsa20

192 bit

Virtually unlimited

Each nonce can be randomly generated.

Nonces must not ever be reused with the same key. However due to the birthday paradox the original variant cannot guarantee that randomly generated nonces are never repeating. Thus the recommended way to handle this is to generate the first nonce randomly, then increase this for follow-up messages. Only the XSalsa20 has large enough nonces so that it is virtually impossible to trigger with randomly generated nonces the birthday paradox.

2.60 Poly1305

Poly1305 is a message authentication code designed by D.J Bernsterin [POLY1305]. Poly1305 takes a 256 bit key and a message and produces a 128 bit tag that is used to verify the message.

Table 225, Poly1305 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_POLY1305_KEY_GEN					✓
CKM_POLY1305		✓

2.60.1 Definitions

This section defines the key type “CKK_POLY1305” for type CK_KEY_TYPE as used in the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of key objects.

Mechanisms:

CKM_POLY1305_KEY_GEN

CKM_POLY1305

2.60.2 Poly1305 secret key objects

Poly1305 secret key objects (object class CKO_SECRET_KEY, key type CKK_POLY1305) hold Poly1305 keys. The following table defines the Poly1305 secret key object attributes, in addition to the common attributes defined for this object class:

Table 226, Poly1305 Secret Key Object

Attribute	Data type	Meaning
CKA_VALUE^1,4,6,7	Byte array	Key length is fixed at 256 bits. Bit length restricted to a byte array.
CKA_VALUE_LEN^2,3	CK_ULONG	Length in bytes of key value

The following is a sample template for creating a Poly1305 secret key object:

CK_OBJECT_CLASS class = CKO_SECRET_KEY;

CK_KEY_TYPE keyType = CKK_POLY1305;

CK_UTF8CHAR label[] = “A Poly1305 secret key object”;

CK_BYTE value[32] = {...};

CK_BBOOL true = CK_TRUE;

CK_ATTRIBUTE template[] = {

{CKA_CLASS, &class, sizeof(class)},

{CKA_KEY_TYPE, &keyType, sizeof(keyType)},

{CKA_TOKEN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_LABEL, label, sizeof(label)-1},

{CKA_SIGN, &true, sizeof(true)},

{CKA_VALUE, value, sizeof(value)}

};

2.60.3 Poly1305 mechanism

Poly1305, denoted CKM_POLY1305, is a mechanism for producing an output tag based on a 256 bit key and arbitrary length input.

It has no parameters.

Signatures (MACs) produced by this mechanism will be fixed at 128 bits in size.

Table 227, Poly1305: Key and Data Length

Function	Key type	Data length	Signature Length
C_Sign	Poly1305	Any	128 bits
C_Verify	Poly1305	Any	128 bits

2.61 Chacha20/Poly1305 and Salsa20/Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption / Decryption

The stream ciphers Salsa20 and ChaCha20 are normally used in conjunction with the Poly1305 authenticator, in such a construction they also provide Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD). This section defines the combined mechanisms and their usage in an AEAD setting.

Table 228, Poly1305 Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305	✓
CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305	✓

2.61.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305

CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305

2.61.2 Usage

Generic ChaCha20, Salsa20, Poly1305 modes are described in [CHACHA], [SALSA] and [POLY1305]. To set up for ChaCha20/Poly1305 or Salsa20/Poly1305 use the following process. ChaCha20/Poly1305 and Salsa20/Poly1305 both use CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS for Encrypt, Decrypt and CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS for MessageEncrypt, and MessageDecrypt.

Encrypt:

Set the Nonce length ulNonceLen in the parameter block. (this affects which variant of Chacha20 will be used: 64 bits → original, 96 bits → IETF, 192 bits → XChaCha20)
Set the Nonce data pNonce in the parameter block.
Set the AAD data pAAD and size ulAADLen in the parameter block. pAAD may be NULL if ulAADLen is 0.
Call C_EncryptInit() for CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305 or CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305 mechanism with parameters and key K.
Call C_Encrypt(), or C_EncryptUpdate()*[10] C_EncryptFinal(), for the plaintext obtaining ciphertext and authentication tag output.

Decrypt:

Set the Nonce length ulNonceLen in the parameter block. (this affects which variant of Chacha20 will be used: 64 bits → original, 96 bits → IETF, 192 bits → XChaCha20)
Set the Nonce data pNonce in the parameter block.
Set the AAD data pAAD and size ulAADLen in the parameter block. pAAD may be NULL if ulAADLen is 0.
Call C_DecryptInit() for CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305 or CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305 mechanism with parameters and key K.
Call C_Decrypt(), or C_DecryptUpdate()*¹ C_DecryptFinal(), for the ciphertext, including the appended tag, obtaining plaintext output. Note: since CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305 and CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305 are AEAD ciphers, no data should be returned until C_Decrypt() or C_DecryptFinal().

MessageEncrypt::

Set the Nonce length ulNonceLen in the parameter block. (this affects which variant of Chacha20 will be used: 64 bits → original, 96 bits → IETF, 192 bits → XChaCha20)
Set the Nonce data pNonce in the parameter block.
Set pTag to hold the tag data returned from C_EncryptMessage() or the final C_EncryptMessageNext().
Call C_MessageEncryptInit() for CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305 or CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305 mechanism with key K.
Call C_EncryptMessage(), or C_EncryptMessageBegin followed by C_EncryptMessageNext()*[11]. The mechanism parameter is passed to all three of these functions.
Call C_MessageEncryptFinal() to close the message decryption.

MessageDecrypt:

Set the Nonce length ulNonceLen in the parameter block. (this affects which variant of Chacha20 will be used: 64 bits → original, 96 bits → IETF, 192 bits → XChaCha20)
Set the Nonce data pNonce in the parameter block.
Set the tag data pTag in the parameter block before C_DecryptMessage or the final C_DecryptMessageNext()
Call C_MessageDecryptInit() for CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305 or CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305 mechanism with key K.
Call C_DecryptMessage(), or C_DecryptMessageBegin followed by C_DecryptMessageNext()*[12]. The mechanism parameter is passed to all three of these functions.
Call C_MessageDecryptFinal() to close the message decryption

ulNonceLen is the length of the nonce in bits.

In Encrypt and Decrypt the tag is appended to the cipher text. In MessageEncrypt the tag is returned in the pTag filed of CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS. In MesssageDecrypt the tag is provided by the pTag field of CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS. The application must provide 16 bytes of space for the tag.

The key type for K must be compatible with CKM_CHACHA20 or CKM_SALSA20 respectively and the C_EncryptInit/C_DecryptInit calls shall behave, with respect to K, as if they were called directly with CKM_CHACHA20 or CKM_SALSA20, K and NULL parameters.

Unlike the atomic Salsa20/ChaCha20 mechanism the AEAD mechanism based on them does not expose the block counter, as the AEAD construction is based on a message metaphor in which random access is not needed.

2.61.3 ChaCha20/Poly1305 and Salsa20/Poly1305 Mechanism parameters

¨ CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS; CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS_PTR

CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_CHACHA20_POLY1305 and CKM_SALSA20_POLY1305 mechanisms. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pNonce;

CK_ULONG ulNonceLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pAAD;

CK_ULONG ulAADLen;

} CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pNonce nonce (This should be never re-used with the same key.)

ulNonceLen length of nonce in bits (is 64 for original, 96 for IETF (only for chacha20) and 192 for xchacha20/xsalsa20 variant)

pAAD pointer to additional authentication data. This data is authenticated but not encrypted.

ulAADLen length of pAAD in bytes.

CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_PARAMS.

¨ CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS; CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS_PTR

CK_CHACHA20POLY1305_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_ CHACHA20_POLY1305 mechanism. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS {

CK_BYTE_PTR pNonce;

CK_ULONG ulNonceLen;

CK_BYTE_PTR pTag;

} CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

pNonce pointer to nonce

ulNonceLen length of nonce in bits. The length of the influences which variant of the ChaCha20 will be used (64 original, 96 IETF(only for ChaCha20), 192 XChaCha20/XSalsa20)

pTag location of the authentication tag which is returned on MessageEncrypt, and provided on MessageDecrypt.

CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_SALSA20_CHACHA20_POLY1305_MSG_PARAMS.

2.62 HKDF Mechanisms

Details for HKDF key derivation mechanisms can be found in [RFC 5869].

Table 229, HKDF Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR¹	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_HKDF_DERIVE							ü
CKM_HKDF_DATA							ü
CKM_HKDF_KEY_GEN					ü

2.62.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_HKDF_DERIVE

CKM_HKDF_DATA

CKM_HKDF_KEY_GEN

Key Types:

CKK_HKDF

2.62.2 HKDF mechanism parameters

¨ CK_HKDF_PARAMS; CK_HKDF_PARAMS_PTR

CK_HKDF_PARAMS is a structure that provides the parameters to the CKM_HKDF_DERIVE and CKM_HKDF_DATA mechanisms. It is defined as follows:

typedef struct CK_HKDF_PARAMS {

CK_BBOOL bExtract;

CK_BBOOL bExpand;

CK_MECHANISM_TYPE prfHashMechanism;

CK_ULONG ulSaltType;

CK_BYTE_PTR pSalt;

CK_ULONG ulSaltLen;

CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hSaltKey;

CK_BYTE_PTR pInfo;

CK_ULONG ulInfoLen;

} CK_HKDF_PARAMS;

The fields of the structure have the following meanings:

bExtract execute the extract portion of HKDF.

bExpand execute the expand portion of HKDF.

prfHashMechanism base hash used for the HMAC in the underlying HKDF operation.

ulSaltType specifies how the salt for the extract portion of the KDF is supplied.

CKF_HKDF_SALT_NULL no salt is supplied.

CKF_HKDF_SALT_DATA salt is supplied as a data in pSalt with length ulSaltLen.

CKF_HKDF_SALT_KEY salt is supplied as a key in hSaltKey.

pSalt pointer to the salt.

ulSaltLen length of the salt pointed to in pSalt.

hSaltKey object handle to the salt key.

pInfo info string for the expand stage.

ulInfoLen length of the info string for the expand stage.

CK_HKDF_PARAMS_PTR is a pointer to a CK_HKDF_PARAMS.

2.62.3 HKDF derive

HKDF derivation implements the HKDF as specified in [RFC 5869]. The two booleans bExtract and bExpand control whether the extract section of the HKDF or the expand section of the HKDF is in use.

It has a parameter, a CK_HKDF_PARAMS structure, which allows for the passing of the salt and or the expansion info. The structure contains the bools bExtract and bExpand which control whether the extract or expand portions of the HKDF is to be used. This structure is defined in Section 2.62.2.

The input key must be of type CKK_HKDF or CKK_GENERIC_SECRET and the length must be the size of the underlying hash function specified in prfHashMechanism. The exception is a data object which has the same size as the underlying hash function, and which may be supplied as an input key. In this case bExtract should be true and non-null salt should be supplied.

Either bExtract or bExpand must be set to true. If they are both set to true, input key is first extracted then expanded. The salt is used in the extraction stage. If bExtract is set to true and no salt is given, a ‘zero’ salt (salt whose length is the same as the underlying hash and values all set to zero) is used as specified by the RFC. If bExpand is set to true, CKA_VALUE_LEN should be set to the desired key length. If it is false CKA_VALUE_LEN may be set to the length of the hash, but that is not necessary as the mechanism will supply this value. The salt should be ignored if bExtract is false. The pInfo should be ignored if bExpand is set to false.

The mechanism also contributes the CKA_CLASS, and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key. Other attributes may be specified in the template, or else are assigned default values.

The template sent along with this mechanism during a C_DeriveKey call may indicate that the object class is CKO_SECRET_KEY. However, since these facts are all implicit in the mechanism, there is no need to specify any of them.

This mechanism has the following rules about key sensitivity and extractability:

2.62.4 HKDF Data

HKDF Data derive mechanism, denoted CKM_HKDF_DATA, is identical to HKDF Derive except the output is a CKO_DATA object whose value is the result to the derive operation. Some tokens may restrict what data may be successfully derived based on the pInfo portion of the CK_HKDF_PARAMS. All tokens must minimally support bExtract set to true and pInfo values which contain the value “tls1.3 iv” as opaque label as per [TLS13] struct HkdfLabel. Future additional required combinations may be specified in the profile document and applications could then query the appropriate profile before depending on the mechanism.

2.62.5 HKDF Key gen

HKDF key gen, denoted CKM_HKDF_KEY_GEN generates a new random HKDF key. CKA_VALUE_LEN must be set in the template.

2.63 NULL Mechanism

CKM_NULL is a mechanism used to implement the trivial pass-through function.

Table 230, CKM_NULL Mechanisms vs. Functions

	Functions
Mechanism	Encrypt & Decrypt	Sign & Verify	SR & VR1	Digest	Gen. Key/ Key Pair	Wrap & Unwrap	Derive
CKM_NULL	ü	ü	ü	ü		ü	ü
1SR = SignRecover, VR = VerifyRecover

2.63.1 Definitions

Mechanisms:

CKM_NULL

2.63.2 CKM_NULL mechanism parameters

CKM_NULL does not have a parameter.

When used for encrypting / decrypting data, the input data is copied unchanged to the output data.

When used for signing, the input data is copied to the signature. When used for signature verification, it compares the input data and the signature, and returns CKR_OK (indicating that both are identical) or CKR_SIGNATURE_INVALID.

When used for digesting data, the input data is copied to the message digest.

When used for wrapping a private or secret key object, the wrapped key will be identical to the key to be wrapped. When used for unwrapping, a new object with the same value as the wrapped key will be created.

When used for deriving a key, the derived key has the same value as the base key.

3 PKCS #11 Implementation Conformance

An implementation is a conforming implementation if it meets the conditions specified in one or more server profiles specified in [PKCS11-Prof].

If a PKCS #11 implementation claims support for a particular profile, then the implementation SHALL conform to all normative statements within the clauses specified for that profile and for any subclauses to each of those clauses.

Appendix A. Acknowledgments

The following individuals have participated in the creation of this specification and are gratefully acknowledged:

Participants:

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Gil Abel, Athena Smartcard Solutions, Inc.

Warren Armstrong, QuintessenceLabs

Jeff Bartell, Semper Foris Solutions LLC

Peter Bartok, Venafi, Inc.

Anthony Berglas, Cryptsoft

Joseph Brand, Semper Fortis Solutions LLC

Kelley Burgin, National Security Agency

Robert Burns, Thales e-Security

Wan-Teh Chang, Google Inc.

Hai-May Chao, Oracle

Janice Cheng, Vormetric, Inc.

Sangrae Cho, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Doron Cohen, SafeNet, Inc.

Fadi Cotran, Futurex

Tony Cox, Cryptsoft

Christopher Duane, EMC

Chris Dunn, SafeNet, Inc.

Valerie Fenwick, Oracle

Terry Fletcher, SafeNet, Inc.

Susan Gleeson, Oracle

Sven Gossel, Charismathics

John Green, QuintessenceLabs

Robert Griffin, EMC

Paul Grojean, Individual

Peter Gutmann, Individual

Dennis E. Hamilton, Individual

Thomas Hardjono, M.I.T.

Tim Hudson, Cryptsoft

Gershon Janssen, Individual

Seunghun Jin, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Wang Jingman, Feitan Technologies

Andrey Jivsov, Symantec Corp.

Mark Joseph, P6R

Stefan Kaesar, Infineon Technologies

Greg Kazmierczak, Wave Systems Corp.

Mark Knight, Thales e-Security

Darren Krahn, Google Inc.

Alex Krasnov, Infineon Technologies AG

Dina Kurktchi-Nimeh, Oracle

Mark Lambiase, SecureAuth Corporation

Lawrence Lee, GoTrust Technology Inc.

John Leiseboer, QuintessenceLabs

Sean Leon, Infineon Technologies

Geoffrey Li, Infineon Technologies

Howie Liu, Infineon Technologies

Hal Lockhart, Oracle

Robert Lockhart, Thales e-Security

Dale Moberg, Axway Software

Darren Moffat, Oracle

Valery Osheter, SafeNet, Inc.

Sean Parkinson, EMC

Rob Philpott, EMC

Mark Powers, Oracle

Ajai Puri, SafeNet, Inc.

Robert Relyea, Red Hat

Saikat Saha, Oracle

Subhash Sankuratripati, NetApp

Anthony Scarpino, Oracle

Johann Schoetz, Infineon Technologies AG

Rayees Shamsuddin, Wave Systems Corp.

Radhika Siravara, Oracle

Brian Smith, Mozilla Corporation

David Smith, Venafi, Inc.

Ryan Smith, Futurex

Jerry Smith, US Department of Defense (DoD)

Oscar So, Oracle

Graham Steel, Cryptosense

Michael Stevens, QuintessenceLabs

Michael StJohns, Individual

Jim Susoy, P6R

Sander Temme, Thales e-Security

Kiran Thota, VMware, Inc.

Walter-John Turnes, Gemini Security Solutions, Inc.

Stef Walter, Red Hat

James Wang, Vormetric

Jeff Webb, Dell

Peng Yu, Feitian Technologies

Magda Zdunkiewicz, Cryptsoft

Chris Zimman, Individual

Appendix B. Manifest Constants

The definitions for manifest constants specified in this document can be found in the following normative computer language definition files:

· include/pkcs11-v3.00/pkcs11.h

· include/pkcs11-v3.00/pkcs11t.h

· include/pkcs11-v3.00/pkcs11f.h

Appendix C. Revision History

Revision	Date	Editor	Changes Made
csprd 02 wd01	Oct 2 2019	Dieter Bong	Created csprd02 based on csprd01
csprd 02 wd02 .. 04		Dieter Bong, Daniel Minder	Intermediate versions
csprd 02 wd05	Dec 3 2019	Dieter Bong, Daniel Minder	Changes as per “PKCS11 mechnisms review-v9.docx”

[1] The encoding in V2.20 was not specified and resulted in different implementations choosing different encodings. Applications relying only on a V2.20 encoding (e.g. the DER variant) other than the one specified now (raw) may not work with all V2.30 compliant tokens.

[2] Note that the rules regarding the CKA_SENSITIVE, CKA_EXTRACTABLE, CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE, and CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attributes have changed in version 2.11 to match the policy used by other key derivation mechanisms such as CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE.

[3] Note that the rules regarding the CKA_SENSITIVE, CKA_EXTRACTABLE, CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE, and CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE attributes have changed in version 2.11 to match the policy used by other key derivation mechanisms such as CKM_SSL3_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE.

[4] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required

[5] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required

[6] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required

[7] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required

[8] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required

[9] Applications that may need to retrieve the next OTP should be prepared to handle this situation. For example, an application could store the OTP value returned by C_Sign so that, if a next OTP is required, it can compare it to the OTP value returned by subsequent calls to C_Sign should it turn out that the library does not support the CKF_NEXT_OTP flag.

[10] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required

[11] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required

[12] “*” indicates 0 or more calls may be made as required