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Simon Tatham
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98200d1bfe |
Arm: turn on PSTATE.DIT if available and needed.
DIT, for 'Data-Independent Timing', is a bit you can set in the
processor state on sufficiently new Arm CPUs, which promises that a
long list of instructions will deliberately avoid varying their timing
based on the input register values. Just what you want for keeping
your constant-time crypto primitives constant-time.
As far as I'm aware, no CPU has _yet_ implemented any data-dependent
optimisations, so DIT is a safety precaution against them doing so in
future. It would be embarrassing to be caught without it if a future
CPU does do that, so we now turn on DIT in the PuTTY process state.
I've put a call to the new enable_dit() function at the start of every
main() and WinMain() belonging to a program that might do
cryptography (even testcrypt, in case someone uses it for something!),
and in case I missed one there, also added a second call at the first
moment that any cryptography-using part of the code looks as if it
might become active: when an instance of the SSH protocol object is
configured, when the system PRNG is initialised, and when selecting
any cryptographic authentication protocol in an HTTP or SOCKS proxy
connection. With any luck those precautions between them should ensure
it's on whenever we need it.
Arm's own recommendation is that you should carefully choose the
granularity at which you enable and disable DIT: there's a potential
time cost to turning it on and off (I'm not sure what, but plausibly
something of the order of a pipeline flush), so it's a performance hit
to do it _inside_ each individual crypto function, but if CPUs start
supporting significant data-dependent optimisation in future, then it
will also become a noticeable performance hit to just leave it on
across the whole process. So you'd like to do it somewhere in the
middle: for example, you might turn on DIT once around the whole
process of verifying and decrypting an SSH packet, instead of once for
decryption and once for MAC.
With all respect to that recommendation as a strategy for maximum
performance, I'm not following it here. I turn on DIT at the start of
the PuTTY process, and then leave it on. Rationale:
1. PuTTY is not otherwise a performance-critical application: it's
not likely to max out your CPU for any purpose _other_ than
cryptography. The most CPU-intensive non-cryptographic thing I can
imagine a PuTTY process doing is the complicated computation of
font rendering in the terminal, and that will normally be cached
(you don't recompute each glyph from its outline and hints for
every time you display it).
2. I think a bigger risk lies in accidental side channels from having
DIT turned off when it should have been on. I can imagine lots of
causes for that. Missing a crypto operation in some unswept corner
of the code; confusing control flow (like my coroutine macros)
jumping with DIT clear into the middle of a region of code that
expected DIT to have been set at the beginning; having a reference
counter of DIT requests and getting it out of sync.
In a more sophisticated programming language, it might be possible to
avoid the risk in #2 by cleverness with the type system. For example,
in Rust, you could have a zero-sized type that acts as a proof token
for DIT being enabled (it would be constructed by a function that also
sets DIT, have a Drop implementation that clears DIT, and be !Send so
you couldn't use it in a thread other than the one where DIT was set),
and then you could require all the actual crypto functions to take a
DitToken as an extra parameter, at zero runtime cost. Then "oops I
forgot to set DIT around this piece of crypto" would become a compile
error. Even so, you'd have to take some care with coroutine-structured
code (what happens if a Rust async function yields while holding a DIT
token?) and with nesting (if you have two DIT tokens, you don't want
dropping the inner one to clear DIT while the outer one is still there
to wrongly convince callees that it's set). Maybe in Rust you could
get this all to work reliably. But not in C!
DIT is an optional feature of the Arm architecture, so we must first
test to see if it's supported. This is done the same way as we already
do for the various Arm crypto accelerators: on ELF-based systems,
check the appropriate bit in the 'hwcap' words in the ELF aux vector;
on Mac, look for an appropriate sysctl flag.
On Windows I don't know of a way to query the DIT feature, _or_ of a
way to write the necessary enabling instruction in an MSVC-compatible
way. I've _heard_ that it might not be necessary, because Windows
might just turn on DIT unconditionally and leave it on, in an even
more extreme version of my own strategy. I don't have a source for
that - I heard it by word of mouth - but I _hope_ it's true, because
that would suit me very well! Certainly I can't write code to enable
DIT without knowing (a) how to do it, (b) how to know if it's safe.
Nonetheless, I've put the enable_dit() call in all the right places in
the Windows main programs as well as the Unix and cross-platform code,
so that if I later find out that I _can_ put in an explicit enable of
DIT in some way, I'll only have to arrange to set HAVE_ARM_DIT and
compile the enable_dit() function appropriately.
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Simon Tatham
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1b851758bd |
Add some missing #includes.
My experimental build with clang-cl at -Wall did show up a few things that are safe enough to fix right now. One was this list of missing includes, which was causing a lot of -Wmissing-prototype warnings, and is a real risk because it means the declarations in headers weren't being type-checked against the actual function definitions. Happily, no actual mismatches. |
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Simon Tatham
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c1a2114b28 |
Implement AES-GCM using the @openssh.com protocol IDs.
I only recently found out that OpenSSH defined their own protocol IDs for AES-GCM, defined to work the same as the standard ones except that they fixed the semantics for how you select the linked cipher+MAC pair during key exchange. (RFC 5647 defines protocol ids for AES-GCM in both the cipher and MAC namespaces, and requires that you MUST select both or neither - but this contradicts the selection policy set out in the base SSH RFCs, and there's no discussion of how you resolve a conflict between them! OpenSSH's answer is to do it the same way ChaCha20-Poly1305 works, because that will ensure the two suites don't fight.) People do occasionally ask us for this linked cipher/MAC pair, and now I know it's actually feasible, I've implemented it, including a pair of vector implementations for x86 and Arm using their respective architecture extensions for multiplying polynomials over GF(2). Unlike ChaCha20-Poly1305, I've kept the cipher and MAC implementations in separate objects, with an arm's-length link between them that the MAC uses when it needs to encrypt single cipher blocks to use as the inputs to the MAC algorithm. That enables the cipher and the MAC to be independently selected from their hardware-accelerated versions, just in case someone runs on a system that has polynomial multiplication instructions but not AES acceleration, or vice versa. There's a fourth implementation of the GCM MAC, which is a pure software implementation of the same algorithm used in the vectorised versions. It's too slow to use live, but I've kept it in the code for future testing needs, and because it's a convenient place to dump my design comments. The vectorised implementations are fairly crude as far as optimisation goes. I'm sure serious x86 _or_ Arm optimisation engineers would look at them and laugh. But GCM is a fast MAC compared to HMAC-SHA-256 (indeed compared to HMAC-anything-at-all), so it should at least be good enough to use. And we've got a working version with some tests now, so if someone else wants to improve them, they can. |
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Simon Tatham
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fca13a17b1 |
Break up crypto modules containing HW acceleration.
This applies to all of AES, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512. All those source files previously contained multiple implementations of the algorithm, enabled or disabled by ifdefs detecting whether they would work on a given compiler. And in order to get advanced machine instructions like AES-NI or NEON crypto into the output file when the compile flags hadn't enabled them, we had to do nasty stuff with compiler-specific pragmas or attributes. Now we can do the detection at cmake time, and enable advanced instructions in the more sensible way, by compile-time flags. So I've broken up each of these modules into lots of sub-pieces: a file called (e.g.) 'foo-common.c' containing common definitions across all implementations (such as round constants), one called 'foo-select.c' containing the top-level vtable(s), and a separate file for each implementation exporting just the vtable(s) for that implementation. One advantage of this is that it depends a lot less on compiler- specific bodgery. My particular least favourite part of the previous setup was the part where I had to _manually_ define some Arm ACLE feature macros before including <arm_neon.h>, so that it would define the intrinsics I wanted. Now I'm enabling interesting architecture features in the normal way, on the compiler command line, there's no need for that kind of trick: the right feature macros are already defined and <arm_neon.h> does the right thing. Another change in this reorganisation is that I've stopped assuming there's just one hardware implementation per platform. Previously, the accelerated vtables were called things like sha256_hw, and varied between FOO-NI and NEON depending on platform; and the selection code would simply ask 'is hw available? if so, use hw, else sw'. Now, each HW acceleration strategy names its vtable its own way, and the selection vtable has a whole list of possibilities to iterate over looking for a supported one. So if someone feels like writing a second accelerated implementation of something for a given platform - for example, I've heard you can use plain NEON to speed up AES somewhat even without the crypto extension - then it will now have somewhere to drop in alongside the existing ones. |
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Simon Tatham
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3396c97da9 |
New library-style 'utils' subdirectories.
Now that the new CMake build system is encouraging us to lay out the code like a set of libraries, it seems like a good idea to make them look more _like_ libraries, by putting things into separate modules as far as possible. This fixes several previous annoyances in which you had to link against some object in order to get a function you needed, but that object also contained other functions you didn't need which included link-time symbol references you didn't want to have to deal with. The usual offender was subsidiary supporting programs including misc.c for some innocuous function and then finding they had to deal with the requirements of buildinfo(). This big reorganisation introduces three new subdirectories called 'utils', one at the top level and one in each platform subdir. In each case, the directory contains basically the same files that were previously placed in the 'utils' build-time library, except that the ones that were extremely miscellaneous (misc.c, utils.c, uxmisc.c, winmisc.c, winmiscs.c, winutils.c) have been split up into much smaller pieces. |