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Summary

  • Add the optional official AWS-LC FIPS provider behind aws-lc-fips, keeping RustCrypto as the pure-Rust default and rejecting unsupported mechanisms without fallback.
  • Route API and CLI operations, private-key import, public-key verification, certificate verification, and capability discovery through the explicitly selected CryptoProvider. Preserve policy, trust, key-usage, and input-budget checks across provider-aware key candidates.
  • Add native RSA/ECDSA handles, supported digest/AES/key-wrap/OAEP operations, cross-provider XML and CLI integration coverage, negative tests, and a four-configuration XML-backend CI matrix.
  • Document native build requirements, provider selection, unsupported mechanisms, and the precise FIPS boundary, including protected-key-container processing that remains outside the native module.

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  • Full workspace, all features: 4000 tests passed, no skipped tests.
  • Default pure-Rust workspace: 3912 tests passed, no skipped tests.
  • Cross-provider signing, verification, encryption, decryption, certificate verification, malformed inputs, tampering, provider binding, and CLI capability selection tested locally.
  • Formatting, all-feature build and Clippy, documentation tests, and alloc-only XML-input checks on host and thumbv7em-none-eabihf.

Local native execution is not a claim of an approved FIPS operating environment or application certification. CI validates the supported Linux native build configurations.

Closes #180

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  • New Features
    • Added an optional AWS-LC FIPS cryptography provider for supported signing, verification, encryption, decryption, and key operations. RustCrypto remains the default.
    • Added CLI provider selection and capability listings and checks that reflect the selected provider.
    • Added support for importing additional private-key formats with the selected provider.
    • Unsupported operations and unavailable providers fail explicitly rather than switching providers.
  • Documentation
    • Documented provider selection, supported capabilities, build requirements, and FIPS deployment considerations.
    • Clarified that capability checks reflect provider support independently of policy permissions.

Add explicit native provider selection, opaque private handles and provider-aware key inventory and CLI capability discovery. Keep RustCrypto as the default and reject unsupported native mechanisms without fallback.

Cover primitive and XML/CLI interoperability, malformed inputs, tampering and provider binding; document native build and FIPS deployment boundaries.

Closes #180
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Walkthrough

This change adds an optional AWS-LC FIPS provider alongside RustCrypto. It adds provider-aware key import and XMLDSig interfaces, routes xmlsec1 operations and capability queries through the selected provider, and adds provider tests, CI coverage, and documentation.

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Optional AWS-LC FIPS provider

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider contracts and key handling
src/provider.rs, src/key_manager.rs, src/xmldsig/*
Provider traits add key import and provider metadata hooks. Key inventory and XMLDSig interfaces add provider-aware signing, recovery, parsing, and verification paths.
AWS-LC FIPS implementation
Cargo.toml, src/provider.rs, src/provider/aws_lc.rs, tests/aws_lc_provider.rs, .github/workflows/ci.yml, README.md, docs/crypto-providers.md
Adds AWS-LC FIPS crypto operations and tests for supported primitives and XML operations. Adds the optional feature, FIPS CI matrix entries, and documentation of supported mechanisms and build requirements.
CLI provider selection and capabilities
tools/xmlsec1/src/capabilities.rs, tools/xmlsec1/src/commands.rs, docs/cli.md, README.md, tools/xmlsec1/tests/process_contract.rs
xmlsec1 resolves the selected provider and filters capability listings and checks through it. CLI documentation and process tests cover provider selection and capability reporting.
Provider-aware CLI operations
tools/xmlsec1/src/commands.rs, tools/xmlsec1/src/key_material.rs, tools/xmlsec1/tests/process_contract.rs
xmlsec1 passes the selected provider through signing, verification, encryption, decryption, key import, and key generation. Key imports normalize supported key containers within resource limits. Process tests cover cross-provider operations and certificate-companion matching.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant xmlsec1
  participant KeyInventory
  participant CryptoProvider
  xmlsec1->>KeyInventory: Request provider-aware key lookup
  KeyInventory->>CryptoProvider: Import private key
  xmlsec1->>CryptoProvider: Run selected crypto operation
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a0612

This update threads the selected crypto engine through CLI key import, signing, and decryption, with bounded key-container normalization and added cross-provider tests. No concrete defect remains open, so the change appears ready to merge after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a0612

The inspected paths preserve explicit provider binding, policy checks, bounded key import, and rejection of unsupported operations. No material security regression was established. The new dependency and deployment-specific FIPS approval have not been independently validated in full.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new native execution boundary affects feature-enabled callers selecting AWS-LC, including their signing and recovery keys, supplied public keys, signatures, certificates, and ciphertext. Its isolation boundary is the calling process; the evidence does not establish tenant isolation or a separate cryptographic service.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The inspected provider-substitution paths reject foreign native handles, and candidate verification applies policy before native verification. Process tests assert that a wrong password on a protected candidate remains terminal even during lax search, with empty plaintext output and no password disclosure. These checks counter the suspected bypass paths without proving complete security coverage.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Provider selection does not itself authorize key use. Signing selection validates operation policy, provider capability, key usage, material size, and key compatibility. Recovery selection validates decryption usage and RSA policy; explicit native recovery checks certificate/key identity. Composite verification candidates are individually policy-validated.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The inspected private-DER transition validates name uniqueness, capacity, usages, decoded identity, and decryption eligibility before publishing a key. Ordinary validation failures therefore leave no new selectable entry; repeated names are rejected. Stored and normalized private DER uses zeroizing ownership, while temporary CLI inventories end after candidate extraction.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — For deployments requiring approved-only FIPS services, validate the linked module version, operating environment, and permitted services against the applicable security policy. Do not treat provider selection alone as an approval assertion; enforce service approval explicitly where that guarantee is required.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 172 functions across 13 files. (1 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the primary change: adding an AWS-LC FIPS crypto provider.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed [#180] The PR adds the optional aws-lc-rs FIPS provider and keeps RustCrypto as the default. The changes route API and CLI operations, key import, verification, and capability discovery through the …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The provider implementation, bounded traditional-key normalization, RSA capability checks, tests, CI, and documentation support [#180]. The traditional encrypted PEM processing remains at the document…
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Review comments at @src/provider/aws_lc.rs:
- Around line 549-555: Check the RSA modulus in the AWS-LC verification path
before dispatching to `VerificationAlgorithm`, since verification failures are
otherwise treated as invalid signatures. For RSA keys outside AWS-LC’s
2048–8192-bit range, return the existing unsupported error; preserve invalid-key
errors for malformed key data. Document the accepted modulus range in the
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  • src/provider.rs
  • src/provider/aws_lc.rs
  • src/xmldsig/keys.rs
  • src/xmldsig/parse.rs
  • src/xmldsig/sign.rs
  • src/xmldsig/trust.rs
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Comment thread src/provider/aws_lc.rs Outdated
polaz added 2 commits October 3, 2026 15:10
Compare complete companion SPKI through one validation path. Distinguish native RSA verifier size limits from invalid signatures and cover CLI, XMLDSig, X.509 and exact bit boundaries.
Reuse borrowed companion assertions through explicit provider calls so feature-reduced builds do not contain a single-element loop. Preserve both rejection and successful decryption coverage.

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Comment thread tools/xmlsec1/src/commands.rs
Normalize traditional EC and protected RSA/EC containers before native provider import. Bound normalization workspace and preserve terminal password and policy errors.
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