[U-Boot] RSA in U-Boot

[Paolo Bonzini]

> >> I've done porting linux's pkcs7/x509 parsers and they work well
> >> with my UEFI secure boot patch, but I'm still looking for other options
> >> as well.
> >>
> >> * openssl
> >>   Most of existing components linked to UEFI secure boot, including
> >>   EDK2, shim and grub, reply on this library. Why not for U-Boot?
> >>   The size of U-Boot UEFI code in U-Boot is already quite big, and
> >>   so the size of openssl won't be a big issue.
> >> * mbedTLS
> >>   which is maintained by ARM and used with Zephyr, I guess it should
> >>   have small footprint. But it currently lacks pkcs7 parser.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> > 
> > 
> > Paolo, Laszlo, Ard, if you could write a new secure boot implementation
> > today, which of the options above would you pick and why so? :)
> 
> Difficult question. Ideally you'd want a library where three aspects met:
> 
> - widely used (so that there is a diverse community that's interested in
> vulnerabilities, and fixing them too)
> 
> - easy to cross-compile for your free-standing environment (optimally
> the upstream project would support being cross-compiled and packaged
> stand-alone, for that free-standing environment)
> 
> - cares about API stability
> 
> OpenSSL is very widely used...
> ...and that's where we can stop in the list :)

It's also license-incompatible with U-Boot's GPLv2 I think.  I guess
grub can use it because GPLv3 and Apache v2 can be combined just fine.
Reusing Linux's code seems like the best match.

Paolo