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[5.29.0] - 2026-10-28

🚀 Features

EST & SCEP Enrollment (#871)

  • Add EST (RFC 7030): cacerts, csrattrs, simpleenroll (TLS client certificate or HTTP Basic bootstrap) and simplereenroll; enable with [est] est_enabled = true and est_ca_uid; csrattrs answers in DER with extensionRequest and one key type, id-ecPublicKey with the first allowed_ec_curves entry of the template (or rsaEncryption with min_rsa_key_bits when no curve is listed), as a hint only: enrollment still accepts every key the template allows; a CSR carrying a challengePassword must hold the RFC 7030 §3.5 tls-unique value of its TLS 1.2 connection, otherwise it is refused with 400 (including over TLS 1.3, where tls-unique is undefined) (#1257)
  • Add SCEP (RFC 8894) at /scep: GetCACaps, GetCACert and PKIOperation (PKCSReq, RenewalReq); enable with [scep] scep_enabled = true, scep_ca_uid and scep_challenge_password; only AES-128/192/256-CBC envelopes with RSA key transport and SHA-256/384/512 signer digests are accepted. FIPS builds accept only RSAES-OAEP key transport and answer RSA signers with RSAES-OAEP: PKCS#1 v1.5 clients, including the native macOS client, need the non-FIPS build
  • Add per-endpoint certificate templates ([templates.<name>], est_template/scep_template): RSA size, EC curves, EKUs, validity and anchored regular expressions for the subject CN and DNS/e-mail/UPN SANs; a CSR SAN without a matching san_dns_regex/san_email_regex/san_upn_regex is refused (422/badRequest), and iPAddress and URI SANs need allow_any_identity = true and no san_*_regex
  • Issue EST/SCEP certificates as the reserved identity [enrollment-service], mark every enrolled certificate with a certificatePolicies entry (1.3.6.1.4.1.16376.9.2.1) that mTLS and the KMIP socket refuse for authentication, and validate CSRs fail-closed (msExtReq, undecodable or repeated extensionRequest). Setup action: ckms access-rights grant "[enrollment-service]" -i <ca cert uid> certify, the same for the CA private key, and create when crypto_officer_users is configured
  • Protect enrollment: lockout with 429 + Retry-After, at most 16 concurrent enrollments, 64 KiB bodies, SCEP replay protection, fixed error messages, masked secrets, refusal of DES/3DES/RC2 envelopes and SHA-1/MD5 signatures, renewal checks that count only certificates owned by the CA owner (a copy carrying a forged _enrolled_serial tag cannot revive a revoked certificate), and every attempt logged and audited (#1257)
  • Accept dotted OIDs in extended-key-usage entries of X.509 extension files
  • Add mise run test:scep-interop, test:est-interop and test:scep-apple black-box tests

Audit Logging

  • Add a PostgreSQL audit backend as an alternative to the JSONL file (--audit-postgres-url, --audit-instance-id): session advisory lock per instance, append-only kms_audit_events, hardened deployments with SELECT/INSERT only, and the audit database must differ from the object database
  • Always start the PostgreSQL audit backend: on content corruption, seal the latest chain generation as evidence and start a new one with an audit:reanchor event carrying a SHA-256 evidence digest; connectivity, TLS, schema and lock failures still abort startup
  • Record a final audit:size-cap-reached event in the file backend and report a row that does not chain to its predecessor as broken_link
  • Honor sslmode=verify-ca/verify-full, sslrootcert, sslcert and sslkey on the audit connection, and refuse to start when the four append-only triggers are missing in a no-DDL deployment
  • Read PostgreSQL audit chains with ckms audit export/verify through --audit-postgres-url (optional --audit-instance-id) in bounded pages (#1189)
  • Fix ckms audit flags: reject --audit-instance-id with a file source, fail export and verify on an instance with no events, verify every chain generation, include instance and generation in PostgreSQL exports, and stop reading KMS_AUDIT_INSTANCE_ID
  • Make the PostgreSQL audit seal-and-roll write atomic and serialize concurrent schema bootstrap across instances
  • Read the audit client address from the rightmost X-Forwarded-For entry that is not a trusted proxy instead of the leftmost one, which the client controls; update log/SIEM correlation rules
  • Generalize the audit writer/store to an AuditSink interface shared by the file and PostgreSQL backends
  • Add a live PostgreSQL audit suite (restricted writer role, tamper → restart → seal-and-roll), run in CI
  • Reorganize the Audit & SIEM docs (shared overview, file and PostgreSQL backend pages, audit events reference, audit tables in the database tables reference) and document CEF export and read-only collection accounts; state that --audit-failure-mode reject only governs queue admission and that the SHA-256 chain is unkeyed, so detecting a privileged rewrite needs a chain head (id, row_hash) exported outside the database
  • Upgrading from 5.28.0 needs no audit migration: the PostgreSQL audit tables are new and created on first connection, file audit logs keep their hash-chain format, and every new configuration key is optional

OpenPGP

  • Add the ckms pgp subcommand group (non-FIPS): keys create (Ed25519, RSA 2048/3072/4096), keys revoke, keys destroy, export, import, encrypt, decrypt, sign and sign-verify, with pgp-secret-binary and pgp-public-binary GnuPG-compatible exports; transferable keys are version 4 or 6 only, and building requires Rust 1.88 (rPGP 0.21.0) (#1240)
  • Add the Web UI OpenPGP section (create, encrypt, decrypt, sign, verify, armored and binary .gpg export) with WASM bindings, FIPS filtering, en/fr/zh-CN translations and Playwright coverage
  • Generate keys on the blocking thread pool, decrypt DEFLATE-compressed messages with the decompressed plaintext capped at 64 MiB, preserve signed encryption-subkey metadata, and use for Encrypt and SignatureVerify only subkeys bound to the primary key by a verified binding signature (and back-signature for signing subkeys), not revoked by the primary key and not past their Key Expiration Time (RFC 9580); a certificate that is key-revoked or whose primary key has expired is refused by Encrypt (OpenPGP certificate is revoked/expired) and gives Invalid on SignatureVerify, so import an up-to-date certificate
  • Run RSA private-key operations on OpenPGP keys (decrypt with implicit rejection, sign, key generation and self-signature) in OpenSSL instead of the rsa crate (RUSTSEC-2023-0071)
  • Refuse Get/Export of a Sensitive OpenPGP key with Sensitive even when a KeyWrappingSpecification is given, and answer a wrapping request with Key_Wrap_Type_Not_Supported: OpenPGP keys are never wrapped on export
  • Discover RSA keys and certificates tagged gnupg-card (override with COSMIAN_PKCS11_GNUPG_KEY_TAG) so gnupg-pkcs11-scd can expose them as a GnuPG smartcard
  • Add a 24-test GnuPG interoperability matrix, .mise/scripts/test/test_gnupg.sh and a gnupg CI job

Web UI SAML Single Sign-On

  • Add Web UI SAML single sign-on through the Authentication Verifier: the new auth_verifier_saml_realm setting advertises AUTH_VERIFIER_SAML in GET /ui/auth_method, GET /ui/login_saml starts sign-in, the UI shows a Single sign-on (SSO) button and the session user with a Logout button, and the Authentication Verifier _ea_ session cookie is accepted on the KMIP, REST crypto and tokenize APIs and in GET /ui/whoami (#1252)
  • Accept the _ea_ cookie only when auth_verifier_saml_realm is configured and only for tokens of that realm (an explicit bearer token takes precedence), and authenticate state-changing cookie requests only with Content-Type: application/json or application/octet-stream
  • Refuse to start when auth_verifier_saml_realm is set and kms_public_url does not use https://, when the realm is empty or the Authentication Verifier admin realm _, or when auth_verifier_url does not use https://
  • Revoke the Authentication Verifier session and expire the _ea_ cookie on GET /ui/logout, only for a valid session of the SAML realm
  • Move the authentication submodule to the Authentication Verifier release that ships SAML single sign-on (0.5.0), and add the test:ui-saml end-to-end task (Keycloak IdP and nginx in Docker, Authentication Verifier and KMS on the host with complete test_data fixtures, Playwright in ui/tests/e2e-saml/), also run by test:ui on non-FIPS with Docker

HSM

  • Add Thales Luna Network HSM support (hsm_model = "luna") with a 25-test PKCS#11 suite, a prepare_luna.sh client installer, and Kubernetes guides (#1275, #1281)
  • Add Azure Cloud HSM support (hsm_model = "azure_cloud_hsm", Linux x86_64): the KMS loads /opt/azurecloudhsm/lib64/libazcloudhsm_pkcs11.so, overridable with AZURE_CLOUD_HSM_PKCS11_LIB; the new Azure Cloud HSM page covers client setup, Crypto User creation, slot-id discovery, configuration and limits (#1211)
  • Delegate RSA-PSS signing, EC key generation (P-224/P-256/P-384/P-521), ECDSA signing, EdDSA (Ed25519/Ed448) signing and RSA SignatureVerify to the HSM (#1154, #1157)
  • Add HSM trait MAC generate/verify with bridging (#1263), non-fips gating on every PKCS#11 loader crate, and Session helpers for message-based AES-GCM, HKDF, generic secret keys and multi-part AES-CBC
  • Add the Helm command value so the FIPS image can start with OPENSSL_CONF unset for HSM libraries that embed OpenSSL (Trustway Proteccio)
  • Add ckms bench --hsm/--hsm-slot and mise run bench:hsm --delegated, with bench:pkcs11 reports for every signature algorithm
  • Sign and verify through the PKCS#11 v3.0 message API (C_MessageSignInit/C_SignMessage, C_MessageVerifyInit/C_VerifyMessage, persistent per-session contexts) when the provider sets supports_message_sign_verify and the library exports it, falling back to the classic API for each mechanism the HSM rejects (#1340)
  • Add key_encryption_key_wrapping_algorithm (aes-gcm, aes-key-wrap, aes-key-wrap-padding, rsa-oaep; env KMS_KEY_ENCRYPTION_KEY_WRAPPING_ALGORITHM) to choose how key_encryption_key wraps keys at rest; unset keeps AES-GCM for an HSM AES key, RSA-OAEP (SHA-256) for an HSM RSA key and AES-KWP for a software AES key, and a software RSA key requires rsa-oaep (#1341)
  • Support AES-KW (NIST SP 800-38F, RFC 3394) and AES-KWP (RFC 5649) with HSM wrapping keys and honour the wrapping mode requested on Export/Get; wrapped objects record the mode actually used, and objects wrapped by earlier versions still unwrap (#1341)
  • Check at startup that an HSM AES key_encryption_key can wrap with its configured mode, otherwise stop with an actionable error; for AES-KW/KWP, set CKA_WRAP/CKA_UNWRAP once on a KEK created by an earlier version (only on a slot that offers AES key wrap) and clear them again if that does not fix wrapping. Note: every new HSM AES key is now created with CKA_WRAP and CKA_UNWRAP enabled, not only key-wrapping keys; restricting them is still under review (#1341)

PKCS#11 v3.x Provider

  • Implement C_GetInterfaceList/C_GetInterface (CK_INFO.cryptokiVersion 3.1; C_GetFunctionList v2.40 unchanged), C_LoginUser, the CKO_PROFILE conformance profiles, CKA_UNIQUE_ID, the v3.0 function list stubs, and one-shot EdDSA message signing (C_MessageSignInit returns CKR_FUNCTION_NOT_SUPPORTED for any other mechanism, whatever its parameters); PINs, user names and tokens passed to C_Login/C_LoginUser, and the copy of the HSM slot PIN made for each login, are wiped from memory after use (the configured slot PIN stays in memory for later logins) (#1166)
  • Implement C_VerifyInit/C_Verify/C_VerifyUpdate/C_VerifyFinal through KMIP SignatureVerify (previously CKR_FUNCTION_NOT_SUPPORTED) and native CKM_AES_GCM
  • Add CKA_MODULUS_BITS on RSA key objects and report CKF_VERIFY in C_GetMechanismInfo
  • Probe the v3.0 interface of loaded HSM libraries additively, degrading to v2.40 when unsupported

PKI & Certificates

  • Add POST /certificates/csr, ckms certificates generate-csr and a Certificates > Certs > Generate CSR page to generate a PKCS#10 CSR for a private key held by the KMS, for example to have an offline root CA sign a sub-CA: an HSM key signs through the crypto oracle and can stay non-extractable (--sensitive), the caller needs only Sign, the KMIP algorithm policy applies, keys that are not Active, lack Sign in their usage mask or cannot sign (X25519, ML-KEM) are refused with a 4xx, and the user-settable PublicKeyLink is never followed (#1328)
  • Create the key pair during CSR generation: ckms certificates generate-csr --algorithm <nist-p256|rsa4096|…> (the certify --generate-key-pair algorithms; add --private-key-id hsm::<slot>::<id> --sensitive for a non-extractable HSM key), a Generate a new key pair option on the page, and algorithm/sensitive request fields, the response returning the key ids; the KMIP algorithm policy is checked before the key pair is created, so a refused request leaves no key (#1328)
  • Sign certificates (Certify, ReCertify), CRLs and OCSP responses with an issuer private key held in an HSM, including a non-extractable one: the HSM signs the TBS bytes and the result is verified with the issuer public key before it is stored; an issuer given only by its sensitive HSM key id is resolved through the certificate's PrivateKeyLink; Ed25519/Ed448 HSM keys (non-FIPS) work for CSRs, certificates, CRLs and OCSP; EST issues through Certify, and SCEP answers NotSupported for a sensitive HSM CA key. Certify given an HSM private key id with no PublicKeyLink (for example the ID Placeholder after an HSM CreateKeyPair, including a non-extractable RSA key) certifies its public key <sk>_pk, with the caller's own Certify rights on it. Upgrade action: this applies to every HSM issuer key, including non-sensitive ones that used to be exported for signing: grant Certify on the HSM CA key to the users who issue certificates or CRLs with it (HSM grants are per operation); HSM CA keys other than RSA, EC, Ed25519 and Ed448 are refused, and EC HSM CAs sign with the digest matching their curve (SHA-256 for P-256, SHA-384 for P-384, SHA-512 for P-521) (#1328)
  • Tag every certificate created by Certify/ReCertify or imported (PKCS#12 included) with the system tag _serial=<UPPERCASE HEX> so Locate by tag finds it by serial number; on the first start after the upgrade, existing certificates get the tag in a one-time database write (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis-Findex) recorded by a completion marker (#1328)

REST

  • Unwrap the CEK of POST /v1/crypto/decrypt with RSA-OAEP/RSA-OAEP-256 through the HSM crypto oracle when kid designates an HSM key pair (a public kid is resolved through PrivateKeyLink or the _pk suffix), so the private key never leaves the HSM; SoftHSM2 2.6.1 cannot do RSA-OAEP decryption with explicit parameters, use another HSM such as Kryoptic (#1338)
  • Import a public-only RSA key with POST /v1/crypto/keys (n and e without d, key_ops among encrypt, wrapKey and verify), and accept a caller-chosen kid on every import (#1338)
  • Accept cek_kid in POST /v1/crypto/encrypt (RSA-OAEP/RSA-OAEP-256 only): an active, extractable KMS AES key on which the caller has Export, used as the CEK of a complete JWE; the key that wraps it (the public key of kid, or the private key when it has no linked public key) must have the WrapKey usage and the RSA-OAEP hash must pass the KMIP algorithm policy, otherwise HTTP 422: RSA-OAEP (SHA-1) is refused when the configured policy excludes it (the DEFAULT policy does; no policy, or a custom allowlist that includes SHA-1, still accepts it), and public keys imported through POST /v1/crypto/keys need wrapKey in key_ops (#1338)

Packaging & Deployment

  • Publish signed Alpine Linux .apk packages for cosmian_kms (OpenRC service, run as the unprivileged kms system user with kms.toml as root:kms 0640) and ckms, for x86_64 and aarch64: dynamically-linked musl for FIPS, fully static musl for non-FIPS; add the test:musl-crosscheck, test_alpine_musl.sh and alpine-native-build validation paths and gate publish-apk on the Alpine smoke tests (#1237)
  • Ship the C++ runtime (libstdc++, libgcc_s) in the Docker image for vendor PKCS#11 libraries

Server Configuration & KMIP

  • Report the real generator (DRBG, CTR, AES-256) in Query with QueryRNGs
  • Decide per attribute and per operation whether an edit is allowed, needs a grant or is server-managed with one policy table (Tag::edit_policy)
  • Support Certify over KMIP 1.x, with the X.509 extensions in the Custom Attribute y-cosmian::x509-extension (#1335)

Crypto & KEM

  • Thread an OpenSSL property query and a FIPS-indicator check through ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA and hybrid KEM key generation; a fips=yes request fails closed when the indicator is unavailable, as required by NIST SP 800-227 RS2 readiness (#1253)
  • Give RNGSeed zero entropy credit, zeroize the split-key seed and return ServerError on RNG failures (#1253)
  • Add the non-FIPS secp192k1 curve: ckms ec keys create --curve secp192k1, ckms ec sign and sign-verify on the software path, and HSM key generation (OID 1.3.132.0.31); it signs with OpenSSL's randomised ECDSA

🐛 Bug Fixes

Hybrid KEM & HSM Key Encryption Key

  • Fix hybrid KEM keys (ConfigurableKEM, X25519MLKEM768, X448MLKEM1024) with an HSM key_encryption_key: ckms pqc keys create -a ml-kem-768-p256 no longer fails with Unsupported key format type: ConfigurableKEMSecretKey; wrap, unwrap, export with the stored KeyFormatType and TTLV deserialization now work (#1330)
  • Unwrap with a KMS wrapping key that is itself wrapped (for example by the HSM KEK), checking its stored usage mask
  • Keep the requested CryptographicUsageMask of ConfigurableKEM keys instead of OR-ing Unrestricted, and inherit CommonAttributes in per-key attributes
  • Reject non-empty Data in KEM Encrypt, and decapsulate the encapsulation component in ckms bench
  • Fix Import of X25519MLKEM768, X448MLKEM1024 and ConfigurableKEM keys failing with Unsupported key format type, and Get/Export of a ConfigurableKEM key, by skipping the OpenSSL round trip (#1268)

HSM

  • Fix every HSM Encrypt failing on Thales Luna (non-sensitive RSA-OAEP probe key), AES-GCM Encrypt on Luna ("Failed to initialize message-based encryption"), the Luna FIPS IV layout (ciphertext || tag || iv), and creation of non-sensitive keys; cache the supported algorithms per slot (AES-GCM on Luna from 288 to about 4,000 req/s)
  • Create HSM benchmark keys as sensitive and destroy leaked keys; give ckms bench setup keys deterministic bench-<purpose> identifiers
  • Make key-date handling capability-driven (supports_key_dates, false for Crypt2pay, AWS CloudHSM and SoftHSM2) and refuse RSA-OAEP wrapping where unsupported
  • Fix delegated signing: pre-digested ECDSA uses CKM_ECDSA, pre-digested RSA-PSS uses CKM_RSA_PKCS_PSS, pre-digested PKCS#1 v1.5 wraps a DigestInfo, data together with digested_data is rejected, Ed25519/Ed448 reject pre-hashed requests, a mismatched CryptographicAlgorithm returns a clear KMIP error, and a malformed DER ECDSA signature is reported as invalid (#1169)
  • Infer the RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 hash from the input length only for a digest (digested_data): a raw message with no explicit hash always signs with SHA-256
  • Preserve EC-family HSM metadata (Ed25519/Ed448/X25519 key types and CKA_EC_PARAMS encodings, curve domain parameters, CKA_START_DATE/CKA_END_DATE read failures) and refuse HSM-backed X25519 key-pair creation until a DeriveKey path exists
  • Bound async session checkouts per slot (max_concurrent_sessions, default 128), resolve signing in one session, avoid the second C_Sign call, cache non-rotated HSM keyset UIDs for 1 hour, and pool only read-write sessions
  • Issue one C_EncryptMessage/C_DecryptMessage call per AES-GCM operation, and pin the decrypt IV to 12 bytes and the tag to 16
  • Fix SignatureVerify resolving data and digested_data inconsistently on the crypto-oracle path
  • Refuse Get/Export of a sensitive HSM key even with a key-wrapping specification: the KMS cannot read such a key, so it has nothing to wrap (#1338)
  • Use the matching public key when wrapping or encrypting with an explicit RSA algorithm on an HSM private-key UID, as the default algorithm already did (#1341)
  • Generate AES-GCM IVs inside production HSMs in FIPS builds (FIPS 140-3 IG C.H), through the PKCS#11 v3.0 message API or an HSM-generated IV; an HSM offering neither fails with a message pointing to key_encryption_key_wrapping_algorithm = "aes-key-wrap-padding", only the SoftHSM2 and Kryoptic development tokens keep caller-supplied IVs, and hsm_model = "other" is treated as a FIPS-validated module (#1341)

PKCS#11 Provider

  • Fix C_Login/C_LoginUser rejecting OIDC bearer tokens above 4 KiB when pkcs11_use_pin_as_access_token = true (PIN cap raised to 64 KiB)
  • Match C_GetInterface versions exactly and bound the pInterfaceName read to 8 bytes
  • Fix the secp256k1 OID (1.3.132.0.33 was secp224r1's; correct is 1.3.132.0.10), Ed25519/Ed448 key types (CKK_EC_EDWARDS/CKK_EC_MONTGOMERY), and CKM_RSA_PKCS_PSS treating its input as a message instead of a digest
  • Sign a CKM_RSA_PKCS DER DigestInfo (SHA-1/256/384/512) as a pre-computed digest for gnupg-pkcs11-scd and OpenSSH
  • Stop serializing every Cryptoki operation process-wide: one lock per session instead of one global lock (sign-eddsa throughput 19 → 82 ops/s at concurrency 8)
  • Reuse a C_Sign length-query signature only for the same data
  • Return CKR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL with the required length in pulDataLen from C_Decrypt on a length query or a too-small buffer, and keep the decrypt operation active so the caller can retry

Crypto

  • Fix ecdsa_verify()/ed_verify() returning a hard CryptoError instead of ValidityIndicator::Invalid for tampered, malformed or wrong-curve signatures, which affected every KMIP Verify client, not only PKCS#11 (#1183)
  • Sign NIST P-256 ECDSA (non-FIPS builds) with OpenSSL's RFC 6979 deterministic nonce mode instead of the pure-Rust p256 crate, about 20x faster; the randomised OpenSSL signer is used when a pre-digested input is not exactly the hash length. secp256k1 keeps k256 with low-S (#1320)
  • Unwrap AES-GCM-wrapped keys with 128- and 192-bit key encryption keys; unwrapping always assumed AES-256 (#1341)

PKI

  • Fix the OCSP responder answering unauthorized to every request about a sub-CA: issuer hashes were computed from the CA's issuer name instead of its subject name (#1328)
  • Fix automatic CRL regeneration (after Revoke and from the refresh cron) failing silently, and leaving the CRL stale, when the revoking user or default_username had no access to the CA key: it now signs as the owner of the issuer certificate (#1328)
  • Sign certificates, CSRs, CRLs and OCSP responses of EC CAs with the digest matching the CA curve (ecdsa-with-SHA256 for P-256, SHA384 for P-384, SHA512 for P-521, as RFC 5480 §4 recommends) instead of always SHA-256. Upgrade note: existing P-384 and P-521 software CAs now issue certificates, CRLs and OCSP responses signed with SHA-384 or SHA-512; relying parties that only accept ecdsa-with-SHA256 must be updated

Web UI

  • Hide PQC, FPE, Anonymize and Covercrypt (and the new OpenPGP section) in FIPS mode, failing closed while /server-info loads
  • Stop offering CryptographicAlgorithm and CryptographicLength in the attribute Set, Modify and Delete forms: they are read-only (COSMIAN-2026-044)

KMIP

  • Return one Encrypt response layout for every KEM public key (ML-KEM, X25519MLKEM768, X448MLKEM1024, ConfigurableKEM): Data is the serialized (shared secret, encapsulation) tuple and IVCounterNonce is empty, instead of returning the encapsulation in IVCounterNonce; ML-KEM and native hybrid KEM clients unpack Data (#1330)
  • Restrict RNGSeed to Crypto Officers once roles are configured (add seeding callers to crypto_officer_users), and answer Unauthorized instead of RouteNotFound for unimplemented KMIP operations (Archive, Ping, …) in that case
  • Return Result Reason Read_Only_Attribute (0x1D) instead of Attribute_Read_Only (0x22) from AddAttribute on a read-only attribute, as KMIP 2.1 requires (ModifyAttribute and DeleteAttribute keep 0x22), and refuse AddAttribute of Fresh, LastChangeDate and State the same way (State used to return Invalid_Request). Clients matching 0x22 on AddAttribute must accept 0x1D
  • Use the ID Placeholder in a batched Certify or ReCertify that has no Unique Identifier, and set the placeholder to the new certificate afterwards (KMIP 2.1 and 1.x batches); after CreateKeyPair the placeholder holds the private key, and Certify follows its public-key link to certify the created public key

REST

  • Require a JSON object for protected headers in /v1/crypto/decrypt, /v1/crypto/verify and /v1/crypto/keys/unwrap (arrays and duplicate parameters fail with HTTP 400)
  • Return error responses of every route as text/plain; charset=utf-8 with X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff instead of text/html
  • Report an Azure EKM wrap/unwrap with a KEK that is not in an accepted lifecycle state (for example PreActive or Deactivated) as KeyDisabled (HTTP 403) instead of InternalError
  • Derive use and alg of RSA keys in GET /.well-known/jwks.json from the public key usage mask instead of always publishing use=sig with RS*: Verify only publishes use=sig with alg=RS256/384/512, Encrypt/WrapKey only publishes use=enc without alg, and keys with both (such as HSM RSA public keys) or neither publish neither; keys without a usage mask are unchanged. Clients that assumed every RSA JWK is use=sig/RS* must select keys by kid (#1338)
  • Import a public key from POST /v1/crypto/keys with RSA n and e but no d instead of ignoring them and generating a key pair, and reject a kid on a key generation request with HTTP 400 instead of ignoring it. Clients must omit kid when generating keys and read the server-assigned kid from the response (#1338)

Database

  • Fix Redis/Findex concurrent Upsert and stale tag index: every write is one two-phase Lua script with compare-and-swap, lost races retry, stale Findex keywords are removed and discarded on read; Redis Cluster is not supported (#940, #1258)
  • Invalidate RotateNameCache by keyset name and member UID, and never cache empty results
  • Empty the crls table in clear_database (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL)

CLI

  • Include the JOSE AES-GCM benchmarks in ckms bench --algorithm aes-gcm, and drop the secp256k1 and Ed25519 sign/verify modes of the ckms PKCS#11 benchmarks from FIPS builds
  • Send curve-appropriate CryptographicParameters from ckms ec sign, and reject --digested for Ed25519/Ed448
  • Remove --cryptographic-algorithm/-a and --cryptographic-length from ckms attributes set, modify and delete: the server rejects edits of these read-only attributes (COSMIAN-2026-044), and scripts passing them now fail at argument parsing
  • Remove the --authenticated-additional-data option of ckms key export and the matching Web UI fields: the value has been silently ignored since KMS v5 (#1341)

Hardening

  • Fail the KMIP socket TLS handshake when no client certificate is presented, instead of after the first KMIP bytes (#1276, #1278)
  • Compare the AWS XKS SigV4 access key ID and MACVerify tags in constant time (#1339)
  • Log only lengths, not the plaintext or ciphertext in hexadecimal, from the PKCS#11 provider C_Encrypt, C_Decrypt and KMS encrypt paths at debug level
  • Drop reserved _-prefixed system tags from the objects of an imported PKCS#12 file
  • Count audit events that the backend fails to write (for example while the PostgreSQL audit database is down) in the next audit:eviction sentinel, now worded N events dropped (channel full or write failed), instead of losing them silently
  • Reject crit and nested-JWT cty headers in every JWKS-keyed authenticator (Google CSE, OIDC, Auth Verifier, UI SSO id_token); Google CSE tokens must carry non-blank alg and kid
  • Warn at startup when no authentication method, no key_encryption_key or no rate_limit_per_second is configured
  • Draw every key, nonce/IV and secret token from KmsRng (OpenSSL AES-256 CTR-DRBG, fail-closed) instead of rand_bytes, CsRng or rand::rng(), including C_GenerateRandom; ban every other entropy source with a workspace clippy.toml; nonces, IVs and serials come from the public DRBG so private-DRBG output never leaves the server (#1274)
  • Check every ConfigurableKEM key against the algorithm policy on each use, judged only by the ML-KEM variant and curve read from its key bytes: relabelled or stripped KMIP attributes neither deny nor allow it (#1330)
  • Make CKA_EXTRACTABLE follow sensitive on HSM-generated AES and RSA keys (sensitive = true ⇒ non-extractable) instead of always true, and set CKA_EXTRACTABLE=false explicitly on sensitive AES keys of HSMs that reject CKA_SENSITIVE (Thales Luna, Azure, AWS and GCP Cloud HSM) instead of relying on the vendor default; existing keys must be regenerated
  • Refuse the reserved service identity [aws-xks-service] regardless of ASCII case or trailing spaces
  • Enforce objectVersion in the Kubernetes CSI provider: when set, it must equal the lower-case hexadecimal SHA-256 digest of the object's current content, otherwise the mount fails with FailedPrecondition
  • Audit /v1/crypto requests like the KMIP scope, recording the operation as the HTTP method and route (for example POST /v1/crypto/encrypt) and the key involved; a request refused before its handler (for example with HTTP 401) is recorded with the operation v1. The API documentation lists which scopes are audited

♻️ Refactor

  • KMIP / Server: cut per-request allocations on the TTLV-JSON, binary TTLV, KMIP ByteString decoding, database, audit and middleware paths (4 KiB Encrypt decode: 166 µs → 7 µs; retrieve_object_for_operation on a cached key: 36 → 3 allocations) (#1280)
  • Workspace: remove every #[allow(dead_code)]/#[expect(dead_code)], declare crate versions and shared dependencies once in the root Cargo.toml, use safe OpenSSL APIs instead of raw FFI in PQC (#1267, #1260)
  • HSM: group the HsmCapabilities vendor flags into aes (supports_sensitive_attribute, key_wrap_pad_is_rfc5649 and the aes.gcm sub-struct supports_caller_iv, allows_caller_iv_in_fips, supports_message, which replaces supports_aes_gcm_message), rsa (supports_sensitive_attribute, oaep_requires_source_data_ptr, supports_oaep_key_wrap) and ec (supports_sensitive_attribute, enforces_ecdsa_digest_strength) sub-structs, add the top-level supports_message_sign_verify flag, and remove vendor names from base_hsm session code; custom HSM providers must adapt (#1340, #1341)
  • Code consolidation (no behaviour change):
    • Server: one auth middleware stack for the /tokenize, /v1/crypto and default scopes; shared attribute dispatch arms; shared helpers for the AWS XKS error mapping, Google CSE responses, Azure EKM parameter checks, the JWS signing input, wizard prompt errors and the Crypto Officer Create grant/revoke checks.
    • HSM and PKCS#11: one session-checkout helper in BaseHsm; shared output-buffer copy and C_EncryptInit/C_DecryptInit key resolution in the PKCS#11 module.
    • KMIP and crypto: macro-generated KMIP 1.4 response and key-block conversions; one raw-key path for Ed25519, Ed448, X25519 and X448 key pairs.
    • SQL stores: shared helpers for merging granted operations, rotation filtering and CRL numbers.
    • CLI: one RevokeKeyAction and one destroy helper for every key group except PQC, which keeps its own RevokeKeyAction (different help text). The revoke_key modules of the other key groups of cosmian_kms_cli_actions and RevokePgpKeyAction are removed; use actions::shared::RevokeKeyAction.

🧪 Testing

  • Add SoftHSM2-backed hybrid KEM lifecycle and TTLV-wrapped import tests, ConfigurableKEM server tests (usage masks, policy on use, revocation) and pqc_import_tests
  • Add live PostgreSQL TLS tests for every sslmode
  • Add a PKCS#11 v3.x conformance tier (pkcs11-tool, Kryoptic suite, ckms pkcs11 verify), a Luna test suite and a Crypt2pay simulator, and wire shared HSM tests into every backend
  • Add test:k8s:hsm --model proteccio|crypt2pay --variant fips|non-fips and a Helm command render check
  • Add the EST/SCEP interoperability suites and Apple SCEP fixtures replayed in CI
  • Validate Thales Luna, AWS CloudHSM, GCP Cloud HSM and Azure Cloud HSM manually against real hardware only: no CI runner has these HSMs, so their CI matrix entries are commented out with the reason
  • Add mise run test:jose-hsm (JWKS, RSA-OAEP-256 decryption through a Kryoptic HSM, cek_kid encryption), also run by test:jose, and run the key-byte export and JOSE decryption cases in test_hsm_all (JOSE decryption skipped on SoftHSM2) (#1338)
  • Prove on real Crypt2pay hardware that an extractable AES-256 key can be exported (RSA-OAEP-SHA256 wrap, recovery, AES-GCM decryption outside the HSM), run the hardware suite serially and clean up leftover kms-test-* objects; the Crypt2pay simulator's FIPS suite checks the refusal of HSMs that generate no AES-GCM IV (#1338, #1341)
  • Add PKCS#11 v3.0 message sign/verify tests against a C stub and a SoftHSM2 v3 adapter (#1340)
  • Build in-process server test instances only through test_kms()/test_kms_with_config(), enforced by the no-direct-kms-instantiate pre-commit hook (#1341)
  • Keep postgres-mtls and mysql-mtls (profile mtls) and jaeger and otel-collector (profile otel-test) out of a bare docker compose up -d of the test backends; start them with --profile <name> or by service name (#1298)

⚙️ Build

  • Merge Dependabot bumps (rcgen 0.14, k256 0.14, num-bigint-dig 0.9, etcetera 0.11, redis 1.x, num-bigint 0.5, quick-xml 0.42, vite), adapting the TTLV XML parser and secp256k1 ECDSA, enabling uuid js for WASM, allowing BSL-1.0 in deny.toml and recording cargo-vet exemptions (#1289, #1297, #1327)
  • Upgrade rustls and group Dependabot minor/patch and security updates per ecosystem; ignore semver-major bumps
  • Override smol-toml (≥ 1.9.0) and source-map-js (≥ 1.2.2) in the Web UI build to resolve Dependabot security alerts (#1255)
  • Add Nix builds for the Alpine musl packages (nix/kms-server-musl.nix, nix/cli-musl.nix)
  • Use rPGP 0.21.0 without its bzip2 feature and build without clap-config-fallback's yaml feature
  • Build the FIPS provider from the CMVP-validated OpenSSL 3.1.2 (certificate #4985) instead of the 3.6.2 sources, which hold no certificate; the main library stays on OpenSSL 3.6.2 (#1253)
  • Pin the supply chain: add cargo-vet, hash-pinned Python requirements with pip-audit, govulncheck, SHA-pinned GitHub Actions and base images, pre-commit policy hooks and wider Dependabot coverage (#1273)
  • Drop the unmaintained unsafe-libyaml (RUSTSEC-2024-0449): use serde-saphyr, upgrade kube to 4.2, k8s-openapi to 0.28 and schemars to 1; the server no longer accepts .yaml/.yml configuration files (TOML and JSON remain supported) (#1269)
  • Make shell.nix add the glibc include path only on Linux, so nix-shell evaluates on macOS (#1338)

🔒 Security

  • Enforce read-only attribute rules for client updates: SetAttribute returns Read_Only_Attribute (HTTP 422) for UniqueIdentifier, ObjectType, CryptographicLength, CertificateLength, Digest, InitialDate, LastChangeDate, OriginalCreationDate and Fresh, which were previously accepted and persisted (COSMIAN-2026-030, #1004, #1259)
  • Refuse client edits of every attribute that KMIP 2.1 marks read-only (CryptographicAlgorithm, CryptographicDomainParameters, KeyFormatType, CertificateType, the X.509 subject/issuer, the lifecycle dates, …) on AddAttribute, SetAttribute, ModifyAttribute and DeleteAttribute, and check stored keys against the [kmip.policy] allowlists from the key material when an attribute is missing (curve read from the key, wrapped keys of unknown curve refused, stored CryptographicParameters checked on use), so stripping or relabelling attributes no longer escapes the algorithm policy (COSMIAN-2026-044). Upgrade action: under a curve allowlist, imported PKCS#8 EC and Ed25519 keys are now curve-checked (an imported Ed25519 key is refused by the DEFAULT policy, like a created one)
  • Apply the role check and the request-time KMIP algorithm policy to every operation of a batched KMIP RequestMessage, as on the single-operation path, and the policy to a MAC request whose root tag is spelled Mac: batched requests skipped the policy, so any user could create keys and send parameters that [kmip.policy] forbids, and a user who is not a Crypto Officer could run a batched CreateSplitKey (JoinSplitKey stays open to every user by design) (COSMIAN-2026-047). Audit action: after the upgrade, Locate the keys whose algorithm, length or curve the policy forbids, created through a RequestMessage before it, and revoke or re-key them
  • Require HSM admin rights or an explicit Decrypt grant on an HSM key to unwrap with it, on Import and when reading a stored key wrapped by it, and an explicit Encrypt grant (instead of Get) to wrap with it on Create, Import or Export; authorize reads served from the shared unwrapped-object cache exactly like uncached reads. The 5.13.0 fix of COSMIAN-2025-009 missed these paths, so any user allowed to Import could decrypt arbitrary data with any HSM key (COSMIAN-2026-041). The configured key_encryption_key, in the HSM or in the database, still unwraps keys at rest for every user. Upgrade action: grant Decrypt on the HSM key to the owners of keys wrapped by a non-KEK HSM key, and Encrypt to the users who create, import or export keys wrapped by it
  • Stop the server key_encryption_key from acting as a decryption oracle: Import and Register of a key block already wrapped by the KEK (or its _pk alias, its uid written as an integer, or a public key or certificate whose PrivateKeyLink points at the KEK), and an Import unwrapping with the KEK, are accepted only from users allowed to decrypt with the KEK (HSM admins or explicit Decrypt grantees for an HSM KEK; the existing owner/grant rule for a database KEK); everyone else gets Invalid_Request. Plain imports are still wrapped by the KEK at rest, and the at-rest exemption applies only when the stored key block names the KEK uid or <kek>_pk literally: a key reached through a PrivateKeyLink must be a private key and needs the usual grant (COSMIAN-2026-046). Upgrade action: to import KEK-wrapped key blocks (for example client-side generated keys wrapped with KMIP Encrypt under the KEK, or a KEK-wrapped export), the importing user needs HSM admin rights or a Decrypt grant on the KEK
  • Check the caller's grant on the selected key when a bare keyset UID (for example hsm::<slot>::<name>) is used for Encrypt, Sign, MAC, …; callers with no grant get Item_Not_Found (COSMIAN-2026-042)
  • Count on a CA's CRL and in its OCSP answers only the certificates it issued (issuer name and signature checked against the CA, then, among copies sharing a serial, those owned by the CA owner or by a user allowed to issue with the CA key), with a revoked copy winning over an active one: any user allowed to Import could link a forged or copied certificate to a CA and so put another certificate's serial on its CRL or make OCSP answer good for a revoked certificate (COSMIAN-2026-048). This release extends CRL and OCSP signing to HSM-backed CAs with the same checks. Upgrade notes: if no copy of a serial is owned by an authorized user (for example after the issuer lost the grant), all copies count again; each CRL generation now reads every certificate linked to the CA once, which can be slow for a CA with a very large number of certificates; check the CRLs published before the upgrade for serials the CA owner did not revoke
  • Refuse Authentication Verifier tokens (bearer or _ea_ cookie) whose session has ended through logout, admin revocation or idle timeout: after the signature check, the KMS asks GET {auth_verifier_url}/whoami, through the [proxy] settings when configured, and trusts a live answer for 30 s (COSMIAN-2026-043). Upgrade action: the KMS must reach auth_verifier_url at runtime; requests carrying an Authentication Verifier token are refused while it is unreachable, and CLI bearer tokens now expire with the realm idle timeout
  • Stop returning Sensitive Opaque Objects and Split Keys in plaintext when the Get/Export request carries a KeyWrappingSpecification, which the export path never applies to these types: a Sensitive object is refused with Sensitive, a non-sensitive one with Key_Wrap_Type_Not_Supported (COSMIAN-2026-045). Clients must export these objects without a wrapping specification
  • Stop Get/Export of a key with Fresh = true from writing the auto-unwrapped key back to the database when default_unwrap_types is set (COSMIAN-2026-031)
  • Harden the KMIP socket server: close connections idle for more than 120 s, abort TLS handshakes not completed within 10 s in total (however slowly the client sends), accept at most 1,024 concurrent connections (clients that keep a connection open between requests must reconnect) and reject messages above 64 MiB before allocation (COSMIAN-2026-032); apply the HTTPS mTLS client-certificate CN checks (no empty, * or reserved CN, whitespace trimmed) (COSMIAN-2026-033); reject a client certificate with CN=[aws-xks-service] (COSMIAN-2026-040)
  • Verify each JWT only against the JWKS of its issuer, for every identity provider, whitelisted Google CSE KACLS and Google CSE token issuer, and refresh the keys of the token's own issuer (Google CSE authorization keys included) after a key rotation, at most once every 60 s (COSMIAN-2026-034)
  • Close the Google CSE rewrap SSRF bypass: no redirects, IPv6 and IPv4-mapped literals checked, host resolved, checked and pinned (COSMIAN-2026-035)
  • Fail KMIP requests above 10,000 batch items with Invalid_Message, and reject DeriveKey PBKDF2 with fewer than 1 or more than 10,000,000 iterations and RSA key generation above 16,384 bits (COSMIAN-2026-036); return Item_Not_Found instead of Permission_Denied from crypto operations (Encrypt, Decrypt, Sign, MAC, …) on a key the caller has no grant on, so the existence or state of keys the caller may not use is not revealed (COSMIAN-2026-037)
  • Mask the AWS XKS SigV4 secret access key in startup and debug configuration logs (COSMIAN-2026-038)
  • Apply the KMIP-scope CORS policy (same-origin plus cors_allowed_origins) to /v1/crypto/*, /tokenize/* and /ui/* (so GET /ui/whoami is no longer readable from other origins), and require Content-Type: application/json on POST /kmip/2_1 (other types, and an invalid UTF-8 body, return HTTP 422), so other origins of the same site cannot reuse a logged-in UI session (COSMIAN-2026-039)
  • Enforce sslmode and certificate verification on PostgreSQL connections (COSMIAN-2026-029, #1262): require, verify-ca and verify-full fail at startup when TLS cannot be established and unknown values are rejected, so check that the PostgreSQL server accepts TLS before upgrading; sslrootcert trusts only the given CA, verify-ca no longer checks the hostname and, as in libpq, refuses to start without sslrootcert (add it to verify-ca URLs, or use verify-full)

⚙️ CI

  • Authenticate Docker Hub pulls and collapse the packages-test and alpine-packages-test matrix axes into in-job loops (56 → 14 and 12 → 6 legs)
  • Pin ubuntu-latest to ubuntu-24.04, keep the SAP ASE test image on ubuntu:22.04, pin azure/setup-helm and medyagh/setup-minikube by commit SHA, and add cargo-vet, pip-audit and govulncheck jobs
  • Fix new Clippy findings (large_futures, result_large_err, deprecated cc::Tool::env)
  • Install a pinned, SHA-256-checked rustup-init in the Alpine native build instead of piping sh.rustup.rs into sh, and make the no-curl-pipe-shell hook catch pipes split across lines
  • Install the pinned mise v2026.10.8 Linux x64/ARM64 release binary directly (the -musl build in Alpine containers, where the glibc one cannot relocate even with gcompat), with its SHA-256 verified before execution, instead of the installer and its unpinned release-index lookup (#1338)
  • Rerun hosted runners lost during a job from /ci-fix instead of committing a fix, and route prompts to the matching skill automatically (#1341)

📚 Documentation

  • Document PKCS#11 v3.x provider interfaces, Alpine installation with signature verification, Thales Luna and Kubernetes HSM deployments (Luna, Proteccio, Crypt2pay), GnuPG smartcard use, EST/SCEP trusted-proxy semantics, PostgreSQL sslmode, the Redis single-node requirement and the Azure EKM trust directions (#1323)
  • Document NIST SP 800-227 requirements RS1–RS5 for KEMs, which of them the KMS meets or does not meet (no ESV/CMVP entropy claims for PQC key generation), in the random-number-generation page (#1253); add ADRs for the HSM delegation and PKCS#11 v3.0 scope decisions, the PQC KmsRng seeding decision and the randomness exceptions
  • Add Thales Luna and Proteccio benchmark reports, the Luna quick reference, and HSM algorithm support matrix columns for Thales Luna and GCP Cloud HSM, all listed in the documentation navigation
  • List every supported model, including Azure Cloud HSM and GCP Cloud HSM, in the --hsm-model help and resources/kms.toml, and document the [audit.postgres] url and instance_id keys in the configuration template
  • Document the SPIRE KMIP integration for the KeyManager plugin only: remove the UpstreamAuthority plugin guide and the test:spire-kmip-upstream-authority task (#1335)
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