There are SM1,SM2, SM3, SM4, SM7, SM9, ...etc with China encryption standards. With international encryption standards, we can leverage encryption libraries from publicly available source(s). For example, one of the most common and popular use encryption library is OpenSSL.
This tutorial is written to provide steps with one of the "SSL" library having SMx (China Encryption Library) namely BabaSSL with MySQL. It does not serve as a purpose of the only way adopting China Encryption Standards with MySQL. Applying compatible / Latest OpenSSL library from China Encryption vendor(s)/source(s) may possibly work in similar way as documented in this tutorial.
Environment (for the tutorial sharing)
1. Compute Resource (VM)
2. Operating System - Compute VM is provisioned with Oracle Linux 8
3. MySQL community with 8.0.xis installed via public yum repository
4. BabaSSL 8.3 [ BabaSSL 8.3.2-dev ] is used. It is based on OpenSSL 1.1.1h dated 22 Sep 2020
Introduction
MySQL leverages OpenSSL library to provide ciphers with TLS encryption over communication channel. To allow switching the OpenSSL library with China Standards and MySQL can dynamically use the underlying library feature to enforce the communication using China Encryption Standard.
Steps
1. Provision VM and OS/packages update
2. Download BabaSSL 8.3.2 stable source build for compilation
3. Compile BabaSSL and Install BabaSSL
4. Install MySQL 8.0.30 (from yum repository)
5. Configure TLS with SMx for MySQL
6. Change system service for mysqld with alternate BabaSSL library path
7. Reload and restart mysqld service
8. MySQL (mysql) client with BabaSSL library over TLS with SMx connection
Provision VM and OS / Packages update
Compute Instance (VM) is provisioned with Oracle Linux 8. Once the VM is provisioned and it is ready for connection, login to the shell terminal and apply update and package updates
Login from terminal as
```
ssh -i <privatekey> opc@<public IP>
# sudo yum update
# sudo yum install wget
```
Download BabaSSL 8.3.2 stable source build for compilation
To download the 8.3 stable source zip file, execute the following commands and extract the zip file
```
# wget https://github.com/Tongsuo-Project/Tongsuo/archive/refs/heads/8.3-stable.zip
# unzip 8.3-stable.zip
```
To compile the source, change directory to the unzipped folder 'Tongsuo-8.3-stable" and execute commands as follows :
```
# cd Tongsuo-8.3-stable
# mkdir bld
# ../config
# make
```
The installation will put the BabaSSL into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib64 and corresponding default installation path(s).
Note : The default installation does not replace any standard OS system own OpenSSL but it puts into /usr/local as alternate installation.
```
# sudo make install
```
Finally, make change to /etc/profile and append the following
```
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
```
Exit the terminal and re-login to the VM
Launch a SSH connection to the Compute VM with new library path appended (from updated /etc/profile).
To check BabaSSL and SMx ciphers, execute the following commands and validate if BabaSSL is installed.
```
# openssl version
# openssl -v ciphers|grep SM
```
Output should be displayed as follows :
