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RustCrypto: ASN.1 DER

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Pure Rust embedded-friendly implementation of the Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) as described in ITU X.690.

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About

This crate provides a no_std-friendly implementation of a subset of ASN.1 DER necessary for decoding/encoding the following cryptography-related formats implemented as crates maintained by the RustCrypto project:

  • pkcs1: RSA Cryptography Specifications
  • pkcs5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification
  • pkcs7: Cryptographic Message Syntax
  • pkcs8: Private-Key Information Syntax Specification
  • pkcs10: Certification Request Syntax Specification
  • sec1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • spki: X.509 Subject Public Key Info
  • x501: Directory Services Types
  • x509: Public Key Infrastructure Certificate

The core implementation avoids any heap usage (with convenience methods that allocate gated under the off-by-default alloc feature).

The DER decoder in this crate performs checks to ensure that the input document is in canonical form, and will return errors if non-canonical productions are encountered. There is currently no way to disable these checks.

Features

  • Rich support for ASN.1 types used by PKCS/PKIX documents
  • Performs DER canonicalization checks at decoding time
  • no_std friendly: supports “heapless” usage
  • Optionally supports alloc and std if desired
  • No hard dependencies! Self-contained implementation with optional integrations with the following crates, all of which are no_std friendly:
    • const-oid: const-friendly OID implementation
    • pem-rfc7468: PKCS/PKIX-flavored PEM library with constant-time decoder/encoders
    • time crate: date/time library

Minimum Supported Rust Version

This crate requires Rust 1.57 at a minimum.

We may change the MSRV in the future, but it will be accompanied by a minor version bump.

License

Licensed under either of:

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Usage

Decode and Encode traits

The Decode and Encode traits provide the decoding/encoding API respectively, and are designed to work in conjunction with concrete ASN.1 types, including all types which impl the Sequence trait.

The traits are impl’d for the following Rust core types:

The following ASN.1 types provided by this crate also impl these traits:

Context specific fields can be modeled using these generic types:

Example

The following example implements X.509’s AlgorithmIdentifier message type as defined in RFC 5280 Section 4.1.1.2.

The ASN.1 schema for this message type is as follows:

AlgorithmIdentifier  ::=  SEQUENCE  {
     algorithm               OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
     parameters              ANY DEFINED BY algorithm OPTIONAL  }

Structured ASN.1 messages are typically encoded as a SEQUENCE, which this crate maps to a Rust struct using the Sequence trait. This trait is bounded on the Decode trait and provides a blanket impl of the Encode trait, so any type which impls Sequence can be used for both decoding and encoding.

The following code example shows how to define a struct which maps to the above schema, as well as impl the Sequence trait for that struct:

// Note: the following example does not require the `std` feature at all.
// It does leverage the `alloc` feature, but also provides instructions for
// "heapless" usage when the `alloc` feature is disabled.
use der::{
    asn1::{AnyRef, ObjectIdentifier},
    DecodeValue, Decode, SliceReader, Encode, Header, Reader, Sequence
};

/// X.509 `AlgorithmIdentifier`.
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub struct AlgorithmIdentifier<'a> {
    /// This field contains an ASN.1 `OBJECT IDENTIFIER`, a.k.a. OID.
    pub algorithm: ObjectIdentifier,

    /// This field is `OPTIONAL` and contains the ASN.1 `ANY` type, which
    /// in this example allows arbitrary algorithm-defined parameters.
    pub parameters: Option<AnyRef<'a>>
}

impl<'a> DecodeValue<'a> for AlgorithmIdentifier<'a> {
    fn decode_value<R: Reader<'a>>(reader: &mut R, _header: Header) -> der::Result<Self> {
       // The `der::Decoder::Decode` method can be used to decode any
       // type which impls the `Decode` trait, which is impl'd for
       // all of the ASN.1 built-in types in the `der` crate.
       //
       // Note that if your struct's fields don't contain an ASN.1
       // built-in type specifically, there are also helper methods
       // for all of the built-in types supported by this library
       // which can be used to select a specific type.
       //
       // For example, another way of decoding this particular field,
       // which contains an ASN.1 `OBJECT IDENTIFIER`, is by calling
       // `decoder.oid()`. Similar methods are defined for other
       // ASN.1 built-in types.
       let algorithm = reader.decode()?;

       // This field contains an ASN.1 `OPTIONAL` type. The `der` crate
       // maps this directly to Rust's `Option` type and provides
       // impls of the `Decode` and `Encode` traits for `Option`.
       // To explicitly request an `OPTIONAL` type be decoded, use the
       // `decoder.optional()` method.
       let parameters = reader.decode()?;

       // The value returned from the provided `FnOnce` will be
       // returned from the `any.sequence(...)` call above.
       // Note that the entire sequence body *MUST* be consumed
       // or an error will be returned.
       Ok(Self { algorithm, parameters })
    }
}

impl<'a> Sequence<'a> for AlgorithmIdentifier<'a> {
    // The `Sequence::fields` method is used for encoding and functions as
    // a visitor for all of the fields in a message.
    //
    // To implement it, you must define a slice containing `Encode`
    // trait objects, then pass it to the provided `field_encoder`
    // function, which is implemented by the `der` crate and handles
    // message serialization.
    //
    // Trait objects are used because they allow for slices containing
    // heterogeneous field types, and a callback is used to allow for the
    // construction of temporary field encoder types. The latter means
    // that the fields of your Rust struct don't necessarily need to
    // impl the `Encode` trait, but if they don't you must construct
    // a temporary wrapper value which does.
    //
    // Types which impl the `Sequence` trait receive blanket impls of both
    // the `Encode` and `Tagged` traits (where the latter is impl'd as
    // `Tagged::TAG = der::Tag::Sequence`.
    fn fields<F, T>(&self, field_encoder: F) -> der::Result<T>
    where
        F: FnOnce(&[&dyn Encode]) -> der::Result<T>,
    {
        field_encoder(&[&self.algorithm, &self.parameters])
    }
}

// Example parameters value: OID for the NIST P-256 elliptic curve.
let parameters = "1.2.840.10045.3.1.7".parse::<ObjectIdentifier>().unwrap();

// We need to convert `parameters` into an `Any<'a>` type, which wraps a
// `&'a [u8]` byte slice.
//
// To do that, we need owned DER-encoded data so that we can have
// `AnyRef` borrow a reference to it, so we have to serialize the OID.
//
// When the `alloc` feature of this crate is enabled, any type that impls
// the `Encode` trait including all ASN.1 built-in types and any type
// which impls `Sequence` can be serialized by calling `Encode::to_der()`.
//
// If you would prefer to avoid allocations, you can create a byte array
// as backing storage instead, pass that to `der::Encoder::new`, and then
// encode the `parameters` value using `encoder.encode(parameters)`.
let der_encoded_parameters = parameters.to_vec().unwrap();

let algorithm_identifier = AlgorithmIdentifier {
    // OID for `id-ecPublicKey`, if you're curious
    algorithm: "1.2.840.10045.2.1".parse().unwrap(),

    // `Any<'a>` impls `TryFrom<&'a [u8]>`, which parses the provided
    // slice as an ASN.1 DER-encoded message.
    parameters: Some(der_encoded_parameters.as_slice().try_into().unwrap())
};

// Serialize the `AlgorithmIdentifier` created above as ASN.1 DER,
// allocating a `Vec<u8>` for storage.
//
// As mentioned earlier, if you don't have the `alloc` feature enabled you
// can create a fix-sized array instead, then call `Encoder::new` with a
// reference to it, then encode the message using
// `encoder.encode(algorithm_identifier)`, then finally `encoder.finish()`
// to obtain a byte slice containing the encoded message.
let der_encoded_algorithm_identifier = algorithm_identifier.to_vec().unwrap();

// Deserialize the `AlgorithmIdentifier` we just serialized from ASN.1 DER
// using `der::Decode::from_bytes`.
let decoded_algorithm_identifier = AlgorithmIdentifier::from_der(
    &der_encoded_algorithm_identifier
).unwrap();

// Ensure the original `AlgorithmIdentifier` is the same as the one we just
// decoded from ASN.1 DER.
assert_eq!(algorithm_identifier, decoded_algorithm_identifier);

Custom derive support

When the derive feature of this crate is enabled, the following custom derive macros are available:

  • Choice: derive for CHOICE enum (see [der_derive::Choice])
  • [Enumerated]: derive for ENUMERATED enum (see [der_derive::Enumerated])
  • Sequence: derive for SEQUENCE struct (see [der_derive::Sequence])

Derive Sequence for struct

The following is a code example of how to use the Sequence custom derive:

use der::{asn1::{AnyRef, ObjectIdentifier}, Encode, Decode, Sequence};

/// X.509 `AlgorithmIdentifier` (same as above)
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Sequence)] // NOTE: added `Sequence`
pub struct AlgorithmIdentifier<'a> {
    /// This field contains an ASN.1 `OBJECT IDENTIFIER`, a.k.a. OID.
    pub algorithm: ObjectIdentifier,

    /// This field is `OPTIONAL` and contains the ASN.1 `ANY` type, which
    /// in this example allows arbitrary algorithm-defined parameters.
    pub parameters: Option<AnyRef<'a>>
}

// Example parameters value: OID for the NIST P-256 elliptic curve.
let parameters_oid = "1.2.840.10045.3.1.7".parse::<ObjectIdentifier>().unwrap();

let algorithm_identifier = AlgorithmIdentifier {
    // OID for `id-ecPublicKey`, if you're curious
    algorithm: "1.2.840.10045.2.1".parse().unwrap(),

    // `Any<'a>` impls `From<&'a ObjectIdentifier>`, allowing OID constants to
    // be directly converted to an `AnyRef` type for this use case.
    parameters: Some(AnyRef::from(&parameters_oid))
};

// Encode
let der_encoded_algorithm_identifier = algorithm_identifier.to_vec().unwrap();

// Decode
let decoded_algorithm_identifier = AlgorithmIdentifier::from_der(
    &der_encoded_algorithm_identifier
).unwrap();

assert_eq!(algorithm_identifier, decoded_algorithm_identifier);

For fields which don’t directly impl Decode and Encode, you can add annotations to convert to an intermediate ASN.1 type first, so long as that type impls TryFrom and Into for the ASN.1 type.

For example, structs containing &'a [u8] fields may want them encoded as either a BIT STRING or OCTET STRING. By using the #[asn1(type = "BIT STRING")] annotation it’s possible to select which ASN.1 type should be used.

Building off the above example:

/// X.509 `SubjectPublicKeyInfo` (SPKI)
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Sequence)]
pub struct SubjectPublicKeyInfo<'a> {
    /// X.509 `AlgorithmIdentifier`
    pub algorithm: AlgorithmIdentifier<'a>,

    /// Public key data
    pub subject_public_key: BitStringRef<'a>,
}

See also

For more information about ASN.1 DER we recommend the following guides:

Re-exports

Modules

  • asn1
    Module containing all of the various ASN.1 built-in types supported by this library.

Structs

  • DateTime
    Date-and-time type shared by multiple ASN.1 types (e.g. GeneralizedTime, UTCTime).
  • Document
    ASN.1 DER-encoded document.
  • EncodeRef
    Reference encoder: wrapper type which impls Encode for any reference to a type which impls the same.
  • EncodeValueRef
    Reference value encoder: wrapper type which impls EncodeValue and Tagged for any reference type which impls the same.
  • Error
    Error type.
  • Header
    ASN.1 DER headers: tag + length component of TLV-encoded values
  • Length
    ASN.1-encoded length.
  • SecretDocument
    Secret Document type.
  • SliceReader
    Reader which consumes an input byte slice.
  • SliceWriter
    Writer which encodes DER into a mutable output byte slice.
  • TagNumber
    ASN.1 tag numbers (i.e. lower 5 bits of a Tag).

Enums

Traits

  • Decode
    Decoding trait.
  • DecodeOwned
    Marker trait for data structures that can be decoded from DER without borrowing any data from the decoder.
  • DecodeValue
    Decode the value part of a Tag-Length-Value encoded field, sans the Tag and Length.
  • DerOrd
    DER ordering trait.
  • Encode
    Encoding trait.
  • EncodeValue
    Encode the value part of a Tag-Length-Value encoded field, sans the Tag and Length.
  • FixedTag
    Types which have a constant ASN.1 Tag.
  • Reader
    Reader trait which reads DER-encoded input.
  • Tagged
    Types which have an ASN.1 Tag.
  • ValueOrd
    DER value ordering trait.
  • Writer
    Writer trait which outputs encoded DER.

Type Definitions