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Replace random_byte() with random_read().

This is in preparation for a PRNG revamp which will want to have a
well defined boundary for any given request-for-randomness, so that it
can destroy the evidence afterwards. So no more looping round calling
random_byte() and then stopping when we feel like it: now you say up
front how many random bytes you want, and call random_read() which
gives you that many in one go.

Most of the call sites that had to be fixed are fairly mechanical, and
quite a few ended up more concise afterwards. A few became more
cumbersome, such as mp_random_bits, in which the new API doesn't let
me load the random bytes directly into the target integer without
triggering undefined behaviour, so instead I have to allocate a
separate temporary buffer.

The _most_ interesting call site was in the PKCS#1 v1.5 padding code
in sshrsa.c (used in SSH-1), in which you need a stream of _nonzero_
random bytes. The previous code just looped on random_byte, retrying
if it got a zero. Now I'm doing a much more interesting thing with an
mpint, essentially scaling a binary fraction repeatedly to extract a
number in the range [0,255) and then adding 1 to it.
This commit is contained in:
Simon Tatham
2019-01-22 19:43:27 +00:00
parent 76aa3f6f7a
commit 628e794832
21 changed files with 108 additions and 101 deletions

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@ -726,7 +726,8 @@ static void ssh2_bpp_format_packet_inner(struct ssh2_bpp_state *s, PktOut *pkt)
maclen = s->out.mac ? ssh2_mac_alg(s->out.mac)->len : 0;
origlen = pkt->length;
for (i = 0; i < padding; i++)
put_byte(pkt, random_byte());
put_byte(pkt, 0); /* make space for random padding */
random_read(pkt->data + origlen, padding);
pkt->data[4] = padding;
PUT_32BIT(pkt->data, origlen + padding - 4);
@ -820,8 +821,10 @@ static void ssh2_bpp_format_packet(struct ssh2_bpp_state *s, PktOut *pkt)
ignore_pkt = ssh2_bpp_new_pktout(SSH2_MSG_IGNORE);
put_uint32(ignore_pkt, length);
while (length-- > 0)
put_byte(ignore_pkt, random_byte());
size_t origlen = ignore_pkt->length;
for (size_t i = 0; i < length; i++)
put_byte(ignore_pkt, 0); /* make space for random padding */
random_read(ignore_pkt->data + origlen, length);
ssh2_bpp_format_packet_inner(s, ignore_pkt);
bufchain_add(s->bpp.out_raw, ignore_pkt->data, ignore_pkt->length);
ssh_free_pktout(ignore_pkt);