Unwrap OCTET STRING wrapped EK certificates

[msafarik]

Resolves #1225

What

Some TPMs store the EK certificate in NVRAM wrapped in an ASN.1 OCTET STRING (tag 0x04) instead of raw DER (tag0x30). check_ek_cert() didn't detect or unwrap this, only stripped trailing padding, so the wrapped cert was sent to the registrar as-is and rejected.

Fix

Detect the OCTET STRING tag before the existing parse/re-encode step, unwrap it, and verify the inner content starts with a SEQUENCE tag. Falls back to the original bytes (with a warning) if anything doesn't look like a validly wrapped cert.

Testing

Added unit tests covering: wrapped cert gets unwrapped, non-wrapped cert is unaffected, and wrapped-but-invalid-inner-content is passed through as-is.

Companion registrar-side fix: keylime/keylime#1946

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved TPM EK certificate handling for certificates stored in ASN.1 OCTET STRING format.
  • Preserved compatibility with certificates provided in the existing raw DER format.
  • Added safeguards for invalid or malformed wrapped certificate data.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds serde_bytes, unwraps supported OCTET STRING-wrapped EK certificates before validation, preserves raw and invalid wrapped data, and adds unit tests for these cases.

Changes

EK certificate handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unwrap OCTET STRING certificates Cargo.toml, keylime/Cargo.toml, keylime/src/tpm.rs	Adds serde_bytes and introduces EK certificate normalization with fallback handling for unsupported or invalid contents.
Integrate and test certificate normalization keylime/src/tpm.rs	create_ek normalizes TPM NVRAM certificates before check_ek_cert. Tests cover wrapped certificates, raw DER certificates, and wrapped non-certificate data.

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The change unwraps supported OCTET STRING-wrapped EK certificates while preserving existing behavior for non-wrapped and invalid inputs; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TPM_NVRAM
  participant create_ek
  participant normalize_ek_certificate
  participant check_ek_cert
  TPM_NVRAM->>create_ek: Retrieve certificate bytes
  create_ek->>normalize_ek_certificate: Normalize certificate bytes
  normalize_ek_certificate-->>create_ek: Return unwrapped or original bytes
  create_ek->>check_ek_cert: Validate normalized certificate

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3110-3121: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover malformed wrapper decoding.

This test covers a valid OCTET STRING whose inner content does not start with 0x30. It does not cover the Err(e) fallback at Lines 632-637. Add a truncated OCTET STRING case and assert that the original bytes are preserved.

Proposed test

+    #[test]
+    fn test_unwrap_octet_string_ek_cert_malformed_wrapper() {
+        let malformed = vec![0x04, 0x02, 0x30];
+        assert_eq!(unwrap_octet_string_ek_cert(&malformed), malformed);
+    }

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In `@keylime/src/tpm.rs` around lines 3110 - 3121, Add a test alongside
test_unwrap_octet_string_ek_cert_invalid_inner for a truncated or otherwise
malformed OCTET STRING that causes unwrap_octet_string_ek_cert decoding to fail,
and assert that the function returns the exact original input bytes.

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In `@keylime/src/tpm.rs`:
- Around line 3110-3121: Add a test alongside
test_unwrap_octet_string_ek_cert_invalid_inner for a truncated or otherwise
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[kkaarreell]

I have implemented a functional test in
#1272
but pls consider adding unit tests as well.

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[sergio-correia]

Looks good overall, clean fix. One suggestion about where to place the unwrapping call.

Not in this diff, but related: split_der_certificates breaks on any non-0x30 first byte, so if the same TPM vendors that wrap the EK cert also wrap CA chain certs at NV indices 0x01c00100-0x01c001ff, they would be silently dropped by read_ek_ca_chain. Might be worth applying the same unwrap_octet_string_ek_cert to each NV index's data as a follow-up.