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authorStephan Müller <smueller@chronox.de>2020-04-17 21:34:03 +0200
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2020-04-24 17:42:17 +1000
commit97f2650e504033376e8813691cb6eccf73151676 (patch)
tree5d74704b2aa5db3876a164d4b4207ada303b5ac4 /include/crypto
parent764428fe99e82ce9a57ca22fb8adc3370922348d (diff)
crypto: drbg - always seeded with SP800-90B compliant noise source
As the Jitter RNG provides an SP800-90B compliant noise source, use this noise source always for the (re)seeding of the DRBG. To make sure the DRBG is always properly seeded, the reseed threshold is reduced to 1<<20 generate operations. The Jitter RNG may report health test failures. Such health test failures are treated as transient as follows. The DRBG will not reseed from the Jitter RNG (but from get_random_bytes) in case of a health test failure. Though, it produces the requested random number. The Jitter RNG has a failure counter where at most 1024 consecutive resets due to a health test failure are considered as a transient error. If more consecutive resets are required, the Jitter RNG will return a permanent error which is returned to the caller by the DRBG. With this approach, the worst case reseed threshold is significantly lower than mandated by SP800-90A in order to seed with an SP800-90B noise source: the DRBG has a reseed threshold of 2^20 * 1024 = 2^30 generate requests. Yet, in case of a transient Jitter RNG health test failure, the DRBG is seeded with the data obtained from get_random_bytes. However, if the Jitter RNG fails during the initial seeding operation even due to a health test error, the DRBG will send an error to the caller because at that time, the DRBG has received no seed that is SP800-90B compliant. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/crypto')
-rw-r--r--include/crypto/drbg.h6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/drbg.h b/include/crypto/drbg.h
index 8c9af21efce1..c4165126937e 100644
--- a/include/crypto/drbg.h
+++ b/include/crypto/drbg.h
@@ -184,11 +184,7 @@ static inline size_t drbg_max_addtl(struct drbg_state *drbg)
static inline size_t drbg_max_requests(struct drbg_state *drbg)
{
/* SP800-90A requires 2**48 maximum requests before reseeding */
-#if (__BITS_PER_LONG == 32)
- return SIZE_MAX;
-#else
- return (1UL<<48);
-#endif
+ return (1<<20);
}
/*