Use OpenSSL with -sigalgs option to obtain server's certificate

When $OPENSSL s_client supports the "-sigalgs" option, get_server_certificate() uses $OPENSSL rather than tls_sockets() to obtain the server's certificate, but only for certificates with RSA and ECDSA public keys.

With OpenSSL 3.5 and newer the list command can be used to get a list of supported TLS signature algorithms.

With this commit, if OpenSSL 3.5 or newer is being used, the list of supported TLS signature algorithms is obtained and get_server_certificate() uses $OPENSSL s_client rather than tls_sockets() whenever $OPENSSL supports the relevant signature scheme.

In addition to making the code a bit faster, this may be helpful if a server has a certificate with an SM2 public key and it only supports curveSM2 for key exchange, since tls_sockets() can not decrypt server responses if curveSM2 is used.
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David Cooper
2026-04-10 16:14:11 -07:00
committed by David
parent e3ec72a359
commit 087ddd141e

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@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ HAS2_EARLYDATA=false
HAS_X448=false
HAS_X25519=false
HAS_SIGALGS=false
OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS=""
HAS_PKUTIL=false
HAS_PKEY=false
HAS_NO_SSL2=false
@@ -8464,6 +8465,7 @@ extract_stapled_ocsp() {
# arg2 is a list of protocols to try (tls1_2, tls1_1, tls1, ssl3) or empty (if all should be tried)
get_server_certificate() {
local protocols_to_try proto
local s sigalg sigalgs=""
local success ret
local npn_params="" line
local ciphers_to_test=""
@@ -8499,12 +8501,20 @@ get_server_certificate() {
CERTIFICATE_LIST_ORDERING_PROBLEM=false
if [[ "$1" =~ tls1_3 ]]; then
[[ $(has_server_protocol "tls1_3") -eq 1 ]] && return 1
if "$HAS_TLS13" && "$HAS_SIGALGS" && [[ "$1" =~ tls1_3_RSA || "$1" =~ tls1_3_ECDSA ]]; then
if [[ "$1" =~ tls1_3_RSA ]]; then
$OPENSSL s_client $(s_client_options "$STARTTLS $BUGS -showcerts -connect $NODEIP:$PORT $PROXY $SNI -tls1_3 -tlsextdebug -status -msg -sigalgs PSS+SHA256:PSS+SHA384:PSS+SHA512:rsa_pss_pss_sha256:rsa_pss_pss_sha384:rsa_pss_pss_sha512") </dev/null 2>$ERRFILE >$TMPFILE
sigalg="$(tolower "${1#tls1_3_}")"
[[ "$sigalg" == eddsa ]] && sigalg="ed"
if "$HAS_TLS13" && "$HAS_SIGALGS" && [[ "$OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS" =~ $sigalg || "$1" =~ tls1_3_RSA || "$1" =~ tls1_3_ECDSA ]]; then
if [[ "$OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS" =~ $sigalg ]]; then
for s in $OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS; do
[[ "$s" =~ $sigalg ]] && sigalgs+=":$s"
done
sigalgs="${sigalgs:1}"
elif [[ "$1" =~ tls1_3_RSA ]]; then
sigalgs="PSS+SHA256:PSS+SHA384:PSS+SHA512:rsa_pss_pss_sha256:rsa_pss_pss_sha384:rsa_pss_pss_sha512"
else
$OPENSSL s_client $(s_client_options "$STARTTLS $BUGS -showcerts -connect $NODEIP:$PORT $PROXY $SNI -tls1_3 -tlsextdebug -status -msg -sigalgs ECDSA+SHA256:ECDSA+SHA384:ECDSA+SHA512") </dev/null 2>$ERRFILE >$TMPFILE
sigalgs="ECDSA+SHA256:ECDSA+SHA384:ECDSA+SHA512"
fi
$OPENSSL s_client $(s_client_options "$STARTTLS $BUGS -showcerts -connect $NODEIP:$PORT $PROXY $SNI -tls1_3 -tlsextdebug -status -msg -sigalgs $sigalgs") </dev/null 2>$ERRFILE >$TMPFILE
sclient_connect_successful $? $TMPFILE || return 1
DETECTED_TLS_VERSION="0304"
extract_certificates "tls1_3"
@@ -21245,6 +21255,7 @@ find_openssl_binary() {
HAS_NO_COMP=false
HAS_CURVES=false
OSSL_SUPPORTED_CURVES=""
OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS=""
HAS_PKEY=false
HAS_PKUTIL=false
HAS_ALPN=false
@@ -21344,6 +21355,8 @@ find_openssl_binary() {
OSSL_SUPPORTED_CURVES="${OSSL_SUPPORTED_CURVES//x25519/X25519}"
OSSL_SUPPORTED_CURVES="${OSSL_SUPPORTED_CURVES//x448/X448}"
fi
OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS="$($OPENSSL list -tls-signature-algorithms)"
OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS=" ${OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS//:/ } "
fi
if [[ -z "$OSSL_SUPPORTED_CURVES" ]]; then
if $OPENSSL s_client -curves </dev/null 2>&1 | grep -aiq "unknown option"; then
@@ -21790,6 +21803,7 @@ HAS2_QUIC: $HAS2_QUIC
HAS_X448: $HAS_X448
HAS_X25519: $HAS_X25519
HAS_SIGALGS: $HAS_SIGALGS
OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS: $OSSL_SUPPORTED_SIGALGS
HAS_NO_SSL2: $HAS_NO_SSL2
HAS_SPDY: $HAS_SPDY
HAS_ALPN: $HAS_ALPN