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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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@ -93,8 +93,7 @@ struct X11FakeAuth *x11_invent_fake_auth(tree234 *authtree, int authtype)
auth->xa1_firstblock = NULL;
while (1) {
for (i = 0; i < auth->datalen; i++)
auth->data[i] = random_byte();
random_read(auth->data, auth->datalen);
if (add234(authtree, auth) == auth)
break;
}
@ -111,8 +110,10 @@ struct X11FakeAuth *x11_invent_fake_auth(tree234 *authtree, int authtype)
memset(auth->xa1_firstblock, 0, 8);
while (1) {
for (i = 0; i < auth->datalen; i++)
auth->data[i] = (i == 8 ? 0 : random_byte());
random_read(auth->data, 15);
auth->data[15] = auth->data[8];
auth->data[8] = 0;
memcpy(auth->xa1_firstblock, auth->data, 8);
des_encrypt_xdmauth(auth->data + 9, auth->xa1_firstblock, 8);
if (add234(authtree, auth) == auth)