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Add key generation for private encryption key #2559
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Todo : to make rigth prng we need to use stm32 prng drivers. (hw drivers)
…for hwrng and gen key
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No. Heh, I did not even see feature proposal for that in issues.
I am not sure whether description in this PR is just making shortcuts, but as far as I can tell AES is used for encryption, ec255 is used for encryption key exchange using DH.
Anyway, my main issue with the PR: if you have a way to ask a device for a key on the first boot, that has been written by a device itself to itself, you have a way to provision one of the pair you generate outside of a device and just obliterate the original private key.
And why bloat the device into certificate generator, by adding the der and pem encoder.
Current Implementation
In the default Mcuboot implementation, the private key used for firmware decryption is compiled directly into the bootloader binary.
New functionalities in this PR
During the first boot, the microcontroller automatically generates a key pair. The process includes:
The private key remains stored in a secure area of the microcontroller and is never exposed. The public key can be retrieved during the update.