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putty-source/sshrand.c
Simon Tatham 320bf8479f Replace PuTTY's PRNG with a Fortuna-like system.
This tears out the entire previous random-pool system in sshrand.c. In
its place is a system pretty close to Ferguson and Schneier's
'Fortuna' generator, with the main difference being that I use SHA-256
instead of AES for the generation side of the system (rationale given
in comment).

The PRNG implementation lives in sshprng.c, and defines a self-
contained data type with no state stored outside the object, so you
can instantiate however many of them you like. The old sshrand.c still
exists, but in place of the previous random pool system, it's just
become a client of sshprng.c, whose job is to hold a single global
instance of the PRNG type, and manage its reference count, save file,
noise-collection timers and similar administrative business.

Advantages of this change include:

 - Fortuna is designed with a more varied threat model in mind than my
   old home-grown random pool. For example, after any request for
   random numbers, it automatically re-seeds itself, so that if the
   state of the PRNG should be leaked, it won't give enough
   information to find out what past outputs _were_.

 - The PRNG type can be instantiated with any hash function; the
   instance used by the main tools is based on SHA-256, an improvement
   on the old pool's use of SHA-1.

 - The new PRNG only uses the completely standard interface to the
   hash function API, instead of having to have privileged access to
   the internal SHA-1 block transform function. This will make it
   easier to revamp the hash code in general, and also it means that
   hardware-accelerated versions of SHA-256 will automatically be used
   for the PRNG as well as for everything else.

 - The new PRNG can be _tested_! Because it has an actual (if not
   quite explicit) specification for exactly what the output numbers
   _ought_ to be derived from the hashes of, I can (and have) put
   tests in cryptsuite that ensure the output really is being derived
   in the way I think it is. The old pool could have been returning
   any old nonsense and it would have been very hard to tell for sure.
2019-01-23 22:36:17 +00:00

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/*
* sshrand.c: manage the global live PRNG instance.
*/
#include "putty.h"
#include "ssh.h"
#include <assert.h>
/* Collect environmental noise every 5 minutes */
#define NOISE_REGULAR_INTERVAL (5*60*TICKSPERSEC)
int random_active = 0;
#ifdef FUZZING
/*
* Special dummy version of the RNG for use when fuzzing.
*/
void random_add_noise(NoiseSourceId source, const void *noise, int length) { }
void random_ref(void) { }
void random_setup_special(void) { }
void random_unref(void) { }
void random_read(void *out, size_t size)
{
memset(out, 0x45, size); /* Chosen by eight fair coin tosses */
}
void random_get_savedata(void **data, int *len) { }
#else /* !FUZZING */
/* Dummy structure for the sake of having something to expire_timer_context */
static struct random_timer_context { int dummy; } random_timer_ctx;
static prng *global_prng;
static unsigned long next_noise_collection;
void random_add_noise(NoiseSourceId source, const void *noise, int length)
{
if (!random_active)
return;
prng_add_entropy(global_prng, source, make_ptrlen(noise, length));
}
static void random_timer(void *ctx, unsigned long now)
{
if (random_active > 0 && now == next_noise_collection) {
noise_regular();
next_noise_collection =
schedule_timer(NOISE_REGULAR_INTERVAL, random_timer,
&random_timer_ctx);
}
}
static void random_seed_callback(void *noise, int length)
{
put_data(global_prng, noise, length);
}
static void random_create(const ssh_hashalg *hashalg)
{
assert(!global_prng);
global_prng = prng_new(hashalg);
prng_seed_begin(global_prng);
noise_get_heavy(random_seed_callback);
prng_seed_finish(global_prng);
next_noise_collection =
schedule_timer(NOISE_REGULAR_INTERVAL, random_timer,
&random_timer_ctx);
/* noise_get_heavy probably read our random seed file.
* Therefore (in fact, even if it didn't), we should write a
* fresh one, in case another instance of ourself starts up
* before we finish, and also in case an attacker gets hold of
* the seed data we used. */
random_save_seed();
}
void random_ref(void)
{
if (!random_active++)
random_create(&ssh_sha256);
}
void random_setup_special()
{
random_active++;
random_create(&ssh_sha512);
}
void random_reseed(ptrlen seed)
{
prng_seed_begin(global_prng);
put_datapl(global_prng, seed);
prng_seed_finish(global_prng);
}
void random_unref(void)
{
assert(random_active > 0);
if (random_active == 1) {
random_save_seed();
expire_timer_context(&random_timer_ctx);
prng_free(global_prng);
global_prng = NULL;
}
random_active--;
}
void random_read(void *buf, size_t size)
{
assert(random_active > 0);
prng_read(global_prng, buf, size);
}
void random_get_savedata(void **data, int *len)
{
void *buf = snewn(global_prng->savesize, char);
random_read(buf, global_prng->savesize);
*len = global_prng->savesize;
*data = buf;
}
#endif /* FUZZING */