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An issue with the verification of ECDSA

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An issue with the verification of ECDSA

Post by Norbert78 » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:01 am

Hi forum,
since I started working with Java Cards, I got a lot of valuable information from the discussions in this forum here. After a few weeks of playing around with some code in a simulator and in one of my last steps before finishing up the project, I'm now stuck since a few days. In this situation, I hope for some suggestions on how to proceed with debugging some annoying error.

I'm trying to calculate a signature based on the NIST P-192 curve. This works pretty well but now I'm trying to validate the signature. And when I try to init the ecdsa object for the purpose of verification, I'm getting an error (ILLEGAL_VALUE). The interesting aspect is that initialization works fine for the purpose of creating a signature and that the error only occurs in MODE_VERIFY. My best guess is that is has something to do with the public key but I cannot find any reason....

I copied the relevant parts of my code below. I hope that this is enough code to get an actual overview.

Any suggestions/ideas would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

- N

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private void ecc_verify(APDU apdu) {

      byte[] buffer = apdu.getBuffer();

      GenEccKeyPair();

      short lenOfMessage = (short)(LEN_OF_MESSAGE - SIGNATURE_LEN);
      ECPublicKey testkey = (ECPublicKey)eccKey.getPublic();
      try {
         //This is where the error is thrown. Error is 01, ILLEGAL_VALUE
         ecdsa.init(eccKey.getPublic(), Signature.MODE_VERIFY);
      }

      catch (CryptoException e) {


         short reason = e.getReason();
         ISOException.throwIt((short) ((short) 0x6B00 | reason));

      }
      //Verify the signature of input data against the passed in ECC signature.

      boolean ret = ecdsa.verify(buffer, (short)ISO7816.OFFSET_CDATA, lenOfMessage, buffer, (short)(ISO7816.OFFSET_CDATA + lenOfMessage), (short)SIGNATURE_LEN);
      buffer[(short)0] = ret ? (byte)1 : (byte)0;
      apdu.setOutgoingAndSend((short)0, (short)1);
   }
   
   
   private void GenEccKeyPair() {

      byte[] tempBuffer = JCSystem.makeTransientByteArray((short)256, JCSystem.CLEAR_ON_DESELECT);

      if (eccKeyInitialized)
         return;

      //Create a ECC(ALG_ECDSA_SHA) object instance
      ecdsa = Signature.getInstance(Signature.ALG_ECDSA_SHA, false);

      //Constructs a KeyPair instance for the specified algorithm and keylength;
      eccKey = new KeyPair(KeyPair.ALG_EC_FP, KeyBuilder.LENGTH_EC_FP_192);

      // prepare an ANSI X9.62 uncompressed EC point representation for G
      byte[] auxBuffer = JCSystem.makeTransientByteArray(((short)(EC192_FP_G_X.length + EC192_FP_G_Y.length + 1)), JCSystem.CLEAR_ON_DESELECT);

      short gSize = (short) 1;
      gSize += (short) EC192_FP_G_X.length;
      gSize += (short) EC192_FP_G_Y.length;
      auxBuffer[0] = 0x04;
      short off = 1;
      off = Util.arrayCopyNonAtomic(EC192_FP_G_X, (short) 0, auxBuffer, off, (short) EC192_FP_G_X.length);
      Util.arrayCopyNonAtomic(EC192_FP_G_Y, (short) 0, auxBuffer, off, (short) EC192_FP_G_Y.length);

      ((ECPrivateKey)eccKey.getPrivate()).setFieldFP(EC192_FP_P, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_P.length);
      ((ECPrivateKey)eccKey.getPrivate()).setA(EC192_FP_A, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_A.length);
      ((ECPrivateKey)eccKey.getPrivate()).setB(EC192_FP_B, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_B.length);
      ((ECPrivateKey)eccKey.getPrivate()).setG(auxBuffer, (short)0, gSize);
      ((ECPrivateKey)eccKey.getPrivate()).setR(EC192_FP_R, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_R.length);

      ((ECPublicKey)eccKey.getPublic()).setFieldFP(EC192_FP_P, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_P.length);
      ((ECPublicKey)eccKey.getPublic()).setA(EC192_FP_A, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_A.length);
      ((ECPublicKey)eccKey.getPublic()).setB(EC192_FP_B, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_B.length);
      ((ECPublicKey)eccKey.getPublic()).setG(auxBuffer, (short)0, gSize);
      ((ECPublicKey)eccKey.getPublic()).setR(EC192_FP_R, (short)0, (short)EC192_FP_R.length);

      eccKey.genKeyPair();

      eccKeyInitialized = true;

   }
   
      private byte[] ecc_sign(byte[] dtbs) {
      GenEccKeyPair();
      byte[] signature;
      signature = JCSystem.makeTransientByteArray((short)SIGNATURE_LEN, JCSystem.CLEAR_ON_DESELECT);

      ecdsa.init(eccKey.getPrivate(), Signature.MODE_SIGN);

      short lenTmp = ecdsa.sign(dtbs, (short)0, (short)dtbs.length, signature, (short)0);

      return signature;
   }

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Re: An issue with the verification of ECDSA

Post by mabel » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:16 am

If convenient, would you show us your whole project in order to let us confirm where is the problem?

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Re: An issue with the verification of ECDSA

Post by lostsiwonlw » Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:18 pm

Just cut your applet to a small applet which only includes ECC function. Of course, make sure that this small applet can run w/o any problem.
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