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authorGilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>2024-04-30 14:25:30 +0200
committerGilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>2024-04-30 16:20:20 +0200
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Driver-only FFDH is not good enough for DHE support in TLS 1.2
Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
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@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ The same holds for the associated algorithm:
`[PSA_WANT|MBEDTLS_PSA_ACCEL]_ALG_FFDH` allow builds accelerating FFDH and
removing builtin support (i.e. `MBEDTLS_DHM_C`).
+Note that the PSA API only supports FFDH with RFC 7919 groups, whereas the
+Mbed TLS legacy API supports custom groups. As a consequence, the TLS layer
+of Mbed TLS only supports DHE cipher suites if built-in FFDH
+(`MBEDTLS_DHM_C`) is present, even when `MBEDTLS_USE_PSA_CRYPTO` is enabled.
+
RSA
---