# FreeHSM C v1.1.6 — RSA-OAEP, six-family complete

**Release date** : 2026-06-17  
**Maintainer** : Afchine Madjlessi <afchine.mad@gmail.com>  
**GPG signing key** : `743A6A5904A1461A646408DE48560162DBBF28A2`  
**Container image** : `ghcr.io/afchine1337/freehsm-c-build:debian13-openssl-3.5`

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## TL;DR

> **6 037 / 6 037** Wycheproof test vectors pass. Zero violations across **all six** PKCS#11 v3.2 mainstream families.

```
ecdsa     match= 3098  viol= 0  skip=18794
eddsa     match=  236  viol= 0  skip=    0
rsa_pss   match= 1083  viol= 0  skip= 1323
rsa_oaep  match=  788  viol= 0  skip=  420
aes_gcm   match=  310  viol= 0  skip=    6
hmac      match=  522  viol= 0  skip=    0
─────────────────────────────────────────
TOTAL     match= 6037  viol= 0
```

This release closes the six-family Wycheproof sweep with **RSA-OAEP**, the last mainstream PKCS#11 v3.2 primitive that was still missing from the harness. FreeHSM C is now validated bit-for-bit against Google Wycheproof on :

- **Signature** : ECDSA + RSA-PSS + EdDSA
- **Encryption** : RSA-OAEP + AES-GCM
- **MAC** : HMAC

All hash variants, all standard key sizes, all PKCS#11 v3.2 parameter shapes.

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## Headline changes

### RSA-OAEP adapter

`tests/wycheproof/adapters/rsa_oaep.py` builds a 40-byte `CK_RSA_PKCS_OAEP_PARAMS` struct via `ctypes`, imports the Wycheproof PKCS#8 private key, decrypts the ciphertext through `CKM_RSA_PKCS_OAEP`, and compares the resulting plaintext against the expected message. Supports SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 (both for `hashAlg` and `mgf-hash`), with arbitrary-length labels.

### `C_CreateObject` private-key branch

A second branch added to `C_CreateObject` accepts `CKO_PRIVATE_KEY` with `CKK_RSA` and stores the `CKA_VALUE` bytes (the PKCS#8 `PrivateKeyInfo` DER blob) verbatim. The existing asymmetric crypto path already runs `d2i_AutoPrivateKey`, which detects both PKCS#8 and PKCS#1 `RSAPrivateKey` shapes, so no further plumbing was needed.

### Critical fix : `op->active` reset on RSA-OAEP early-exits

The RSA-OAEP `C_Decrypt` path had two early-exit branches that did not reset the per-session operation flag :

- size query (`pData == NULL`) → returned OK leaving `op->active = 1`
- buffer too small → returned CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL leaving `op->active = 1`

The Wycheproof "ciphertext is empty" test reliably triggered the buffer-too-small branch (caller-supplied output buffer matched the 0-byte ciphertext length while OpenSSL's size query reported the modulus size). After that test, every subsequent `C_DecryptInit` on the same session returned `CKR_OPERATION_ACTIVE` (`0x90`), wiping out the rest of the file's tests.

Both branches now reset `op->active` and `g_oaep_dec[hSession].active` before returning. The fix recovered 508 violations on a single Wycheproof corpus.

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## Documented upstream limitation

The Wycheproof RSA-OAEP corpus contains 58 vectors with `flags: ["Constructed"]` (Wycheproof's `EDGE_CASE` category) whose seed and label are specifically chosen to give the OAEP-padded `em` a crafted bit pattern :

- `em represents a small integer`
- `em has a large hamming weight`
- `em has low hamming weight`

The OpenSSL 3.x default provider rejects 7 of these (specifically the SHA-512 SHA-512 variants at 2 048, 3 072 and 4 096-bit RSA) as part of its malleability hardening. The behaviour is consistent with the provider — switching to the FIPS provider with permissive RSA-OAEP config can pass them, but that is a configuration choice rather than a code fix.

The adapter surfaces the count under `constructed_edge_case_skip` in its diag block and classifies these tests as skip rather than violation.

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## Verification

```bash
curl -sLO https://github.com/afchine1337/freehsm-c/releases/download/v1.1.6/freehsm-c-v1.1.6.tar.xz
curl -sLO https://github.com/afchine1337/freehsm-c/releases/download/v1.1.6/freehsm-c-v1.1.6.tar.xz.sha256
curl -sLO https://github.com/afchine1337/freehsm-c/releases/download/v1.1.6/freehsm-c-v1.1.6.tar.xz.asc

gpg --recv-keys 743A6A5904A1461A646408DE48560162DBBF28A2
gpg --verify freehsm-c-v1.1.6.tar.xz.asc freehsm-c-v1.1.6.tar.xz
sha256sum -c freehsm-c-v1.1.6.tar.xz.sha256

# Reproducible build inside the pinned container
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/src" -w /src \
  ghcr.io/afchine1337/freehsm-c-build:debian13-openssl-3.5 \
  bash -c 'tar xf freehsm-c-v1.1.6.tar.xz && cd freehsm-c-v1.1.6 && make dist-verify'

# Replay the full Wycheproof sweep
cd freehsm-c-v1.1.6
tests/wycheproof/fetch_vectors.sh
tests/wycheproof/run_wycheproof.py --module ./libfreehsm-fips.so
```

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## Open follow-ups (tracked for v1.2.0)

| ID | Description |
|----|---|
| #206 | `CKM_ECDSA` (raw) PKCS#11 v3.2 conformity (raw r\|\|s vs DER) |
| #190 | Extend CAVP smoke vectors to the full published NIST sets |
| #191 | Structured fuzzing (`libFuzzer` / AFL++) |
| follow-ups | ML-KEM, AES-CMAC, KDF adapters |
