feat: add policy-gated legacy algorithms

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Summary

• Add opt-in legacy-algorithms: MD5/RIPEMD-160 digests and historical RSA/HMAC/ECDSA signatures, AES-192-CBC/GCM/KW, TripleDES-CBC/CMS wrap, and RSA-1.5 key transport.
• Enforce immutable permissions independently for each operation and algorithm, including direct public KEK and RSA resolver entry points. Bind direct keys and KEKs to their trusted AES/DES family instead of inferring it from equal byte lengths or input XML.
• Preserve RSA-1.5 padding validity in an opaque, zeroized content-key candidate. Perform content decryption before rejecting invalid recovery, and never return fallback plaintext even if CBC padding succeeds. A narrow embedded adaptation of the existing RSA dependency retains its blinded, fault-checked arithmetic; no second RSA engine or published package is added. This does not authenticate CBC or claim complete padding-oracle resistance.
• Make advertised symmetric recipient wraps executable through the CLI with named explicit KEKs and symmetric key-store entries. Borrow KEKs for unwrap, reuse decoded batched inputs, and filter content candidates in place without changing precedence.
• Keep all cryptography behind CryptoProvider; unsupported AWS FIPS mechanisms fail without fallback. Update capability evidence, documentation, and the feature CI matrix; enable historical digest transforms only in the isolated libxmlsec1 test oracle.

Validation

• Default workspace: 3917 tests passed; legacy workspace: 3941 passed; fat runtime XML backend legacy workspace: 3950 passed.
• AWS FIPS + legacy workspace on Rust 1.92: 3963 tests passed, including unsupported-capability rejection without fallback.
• Reciprocal libxmlsec1 1.3.13 checks, independent donor decryption vectors, RFC 3217 known-answer/tamper checks, policy isolation, malformed inputs, wrong-family keys, CLI explicit/stored KEKs, RSA padding boundaries, and deterministic rejection after successful fallback CBC work.
• Workspace Clippy for default, legacy, fat legacy, and Rust 1.92 FIPS+legacy; workspace build, formatting, and documentation tests passed. Alloc-only XML input checks passed on host and thumbv7em-none-eabihf.

Closes #182

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• New Features
  • Added optional support for historical XML signature, digest, encryption, key-wrap, and RSA transport algorithms. These require explicit policy allowlisting; enabling the feature alone does not permit their use.
  • The command-line tool can use AES and TripleDES keys for compatible operations and reports legacy algorithm availability from the selected provider.
• Bug Fixes
  • XML and HTML output now ends with a newline even when indentation is explicitly disabled.
  • RSA-1.5 key recovery rejects invalid results without releasing decrypted content.

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• Cargo.toml
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• src/provider.rs
• src/provider/rsa_pkcs1v15.rs
• src/xmlenc/decrypt.rs
• src/xmlenc/mod.rs
• src/xmlenc/types.rs
• tests/xmlenc_donor_integration.rs
• tests/xmlenc_encrypt_integration.rs
• tools/xmlsec1/src/commands.rs
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Walkthrough

Adds the opt-in legacy-algorithms feature for historical XML signature, digest, encryption, key-wrap, and RSA transport methods. Library operations require explicit algorithm permissions. RustCrypto implements supported methods, while the AWS-LC FIPS adapter reports unsupported capabilities without fallback. The XMLSec1 CLI and interoperability coverage are updated.

Changes

Legacy XML algorithm support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Algorithm contracts and policy Cargo.toml, src/xmldsig/digest.rs, src/xmldsig/parse.rs, src/xmlenc/types.rs, src/policy.rs	Adds feature-gated algorithm identifiers, URI parsing, metadata, and explicit-permission checks for legacy signature, digest, encryption, transport, and wrapping methods.
Provider operations src/provider.rs, src/provider/rsa_pkcs1v15.rs, src/provider/aws_lc.rs	Adds RustCrypto support for legacy digests, encryption, key wrapping, and RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 transport and recovery. AWS-LC FIPS reports these mechanisms as unsupported.
XML signature operations and policy enforcement src/xmldsig/*, tests/hmac_pipeline.rs, tests/modern_algorithms.rs, tests/signing_digest.rs, tests/donor_negative_vectors.rs, tests/phaos_interop.rs	Adds legacy signing and verification paths. Applies separate signature and digest permissions, including to X.509 digest selectors. Adds policy and interoperability tests.
XML encryption and key handling src/xmlenc/*, src/key_manager.rs, tests/xmlenc_*	Adds legacy encryption, wrapping, and transport paths with family-aware key handling. Tests cover policy checks, donor vectors, and interoperability.

CLI and compatibility validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
XMLSec1 CLI integration tools/xmlsec1/src/*, tools/xmlsec1/tests/process_contract.rs	Adds feature-gated DES options, compatibility policies, algorithm-aware key selection, key-wrap recipients, and template-selected RSA transport.
Compatibility records, documentation, and build coverage compatibility/*, scripts/install-xmlsec1.sh, .github/workflows/ci.yml, README.md, docs/*, tests/capability_ledger.rs, tests/install_xmlsec1.rs, tests/xmlenc_encrypt_xmlsec1.rs	Updates legacy algorithm classifications, documentation, CI configurations, xmlsec1 transform checks, and feature-gated interoperability tests.

XSLT adjustments

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Serialization and XPath condition crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/serializer.rs, crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/xpath.rs	Changes the final-newline condition for XML and HTML output. Rewrites the decimal-subpattern condition without changing its behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Encryption as XML encryption
  participant Policy as EncryptionPolicy
  participant Provider as CryptoProvider
  Encryption->>Policy: check content and transport permissions
  Encryption->>Provider: encrypt content and transport or wrap key
  Provider-->>Encryption: return ciphertext and key data

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 657f2

This change adds opt-in legacy XML algorithms. They are disabled by default and still require explicit policy permission. No blocking defect was found in the current changes. One minor open CI build-configuration note remains and only affects build efficiency.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 657f2

Legacy algorithms are generally isolated behind explicit permissions, and normal decryption preserves RSA rejection state before releasing plaintext. However, the public KEK resolver also has a policy-free route that can execute newly supported legacy unwraps. Exposure requires an enabled compatibility feature, a compatible key and provider, and an application using that route.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · observed: Public KekDecryptor::resolve_key, and the default candidate method delegating to it, can unwrap newly supported AES-192 or TripleDES recipients without operation-specific permission. Attacker-selected recipient XML reaches URI parsing and provider unwrap when an application uses this route with the compatibility feature enabled and matching trusted key material. Family binding and wrap integrity still apply, and normal context-based decryption validates policy first. The policy-free API existed previously, but these legacy algorithms were previously unavailable.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The direct KEK authorization gap is bounded by the keys available to the selected resolver, an enabled legacy feature and a capable provider. An attacker must influence recipient input processed through that public route; no cross-tenant, environment-wide or additional credential authority was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The source-supported concern is recipient XML reaching legacy unwrap through policy-free KEK resolution. The strongest counterevidence is that normal XML decryption and inspected CLI wrappers use the policy-bearing method. The direct-resolver regression checks that guarded method, not the policy-free resolve_key route.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Provider capability is implementation support, not algorithm permission. AWS-LC’s inspected capability table excludes the added legacy XMLEnc content and wrap methods, and new provider-level RSA recovery methods default to Unsupported rather than selecting another implementation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Candidate identity includes bytes and validity, preventing filtering from upgrading an invalid recovery. Candidate storage is zeroizing, and successful plaintext from invalid recovery is explicitly erased. Byte-returning adapters instead reject invalid recovery before content work; external wrappers must preserve the candidate contract.
• observed — The recovery mask prevents fallback plaintext acceptance but does not authenticate CBC or establish comprehensive padding-oracle resistance. AES-CBC’s unauthenticated success/failure boundary predates this PR; newly supported legacy combinations still require the separately authenticated boundary documented for their use.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make policy-free KEK entrypoints reject mechanisms requiring explicit permission, keeping primitive unwrap behind an internal helper reached only after policy validation. Separately, consider reducing byte-oriented RSA recovery adapters so integrations retain rejection state through content acceptance.

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Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The changes in crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/serializer.rs and crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/xpath.rs are behavior-preserving Boolean rewrites. They affect XSLT output formatting and decimal-pattern validatio…	Remove the unrelated Boolean rewrites from crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/serializer.rs and crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/xpath.rs.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 53.96% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 265 functions across 34 files. (5 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding optional, policy-gated legacy algorithms.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #182 requests opt-in historical digests, signatures, encryption, key wrapping, and RSA-1.5 transport. The reviewed changes add these feature-gated mechanisms through CryptoProvider and enforce…

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The changes in crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/serializer.rs and crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/xpath.rs are behavior-preserving Boolean rewrites. They affect XSLT output formatting and decimal-pattern validation, which have no demonstrated connection to issue #182’s historical cryptography requirements.

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Rename the error messages that still say "AES".

The explicit-key and key-store paths now accept DES keys for Triple DES templates. When no compatible key exists, these paths still report "no compatible AES key input" (Line 2395) and "no compatible AES key in --keys-file" (Line 2426). A user who passes --des-key with a Triple DES template therefore gets a message about AES keys. Use neutral wording such as "no compatible symmetric key". The same applies to the named_candidate_search label "AES key" at Line 2366 and in decrypt.

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Review comments at @src/xmlenc/decrypt.rs:
- Around line 670-683: Update recover_pkcs1v15 so non-RNG RSA decryption
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• src/key_manager.rs
• src/policy.rs
• src/provider.rs
• src/provider/aws_lc.rs
• src/xmldsig/digest.rs
• src/xmldsig/keys.rs
• src/xmldsig/parse.rs
• src/xmldsig/sign.rs
• src/xmldsig/signature.rs
• src/xmldsig/verify.rs
• src/xmldsig/x509.rs
• src/xmlenc/decrypt.rs
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• tests/capability_ledger.rs
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• tests/xmlenc_donor_integration.rs
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• tests/xmlenc_encrypt_xmlsec1.rs
• tools/xmlsec1/src/args.rs
• tools/xmlsec1/src/capabilities.rs
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