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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/18] crypto: dh - implement private key generation primitive
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On 12/1/21 1:48 AM, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> The support for NVME in-band authentication currently in the works ([1])
> needs to generate ephemeral DH keys.
>
> Implement crypto_dh_gen_privkey() which is intended to be used from
> the DH implementations just in analogy to how ecc_gen_privkey() is used
> for ECDH.
>
> Make the new crypto_dh_gen_privkey() to follow the approach specified
> in SP800-56Arev3, sec. 5.6.1.1.3 ("Key-Pair Generation Using Extra Random
> Bits").
>
> SP800-56Arev3 specifies a lower as well as an upper bound on the generated
> key's length:
> - it must be >= two times the maximum supported security strength of
> the group in question and
> - it must be <= the length of the domain parameter Q.
> Both of these are available only for the safe-prime groups from
> RFC 3526 or RFC 7919, which had been introduced to the kernel with previous
> patches: for any safe-prime group Q = (P - 1)/2 by definition and the
> individual maximum supported security strength as specified by
> SP800-56Arev3 has already been made available alongside the resp. domain
> parameters with said previous patches. Restrict crypto_dh_gen_privkey() to
> these safe-prime groups, i.e. to those groups with any group_id but
> dh_group_id_unknown. Make it pick twice the maximum supported strength
> rounded up to the next power of two for the output key size. This choice
> respects both, the lower and upper bounds given by SP800-90Arev3 for
> all safe-prime groups known to the kernel by now and is also in line with
> the NVME base spec 2.0, which requires the key size to be >= 256bits.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122074727.25988-4-hare@suse.de
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
> ---
> crypto/Kconfig | 1 +
> crypto/dh_helper.c | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/crypto/dh.h | 22 ++++++++
> 3 files changed, 151 insertions(+)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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