ring/ec/suite_b/
private_key.rs

1// Copyright 2016 Brian Smith.
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14
15//! Functionality shared by operations on private keys (ECC keygen and
16//! ECDSA signing).
17
18use super::{ops::*, verify_affine_point_is_on_the_curve};
19use crate::{arithmetic::montgomery::R, ec, error, limb, rand};
20
21/// Generates a random scalar in the range [1, n).
22pub fn random_scalar(
23    ops: &PrivateKeyOps,
24    rng: &dyn rand::SecureRandom,
25) -> Result<Scalar, error::Unspecified> {
26    let mut bytes = [0; ec::SCALAR_MAX_BYTES];
27    let bytes = &mut bytes[..ops.common.len()];
28    generate_private_scalar_bytes(ops, rng, bytes)?;
29    scalar_from_big_endian_bytes(ops, bytes)
30}
31
32pub fn generate_private_scalar_bytes(
33    ops: &PrivateKeyOps,
34    rng: &dyn rand::SecureRandom,
35    out: &mut [u8],
36) -> Result<(), error::Unspecified> {
37    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to ECDSA] Appendix A.1.2, and
38    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to NIST SP 800-56A] Appendix B.2,
39    // "Key Pair Generation by Testing Candidates".
40    //
41    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to ECDSA]: doc/ecdsa.pdf
42    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to NIST SP 800-56A]: doc/ecdh.pdf
43
44    // TODO: The NSA guide also suggests, in appendix B.1, another mechanism
45    // that would avoid the need to use `rng.fill()` more than once. It works
46    // by generating an extra 64 bits of random bytes and then reducing the
47    // output (mod n). Supposedly, this removes enough of the bias towards
48    // small values from the modular reduction, but it isn't obvious that it is
49    // sufficient. TODO: Figure out what we can do to mitigate the bias issue
50    // and switch to the other mechanism.
51
52    let candidate = out;
53
54    // XXX: The value 100 was chosen to match OpenSSL due to uncertainty of
55    // what specific value would be better, but it seems bad to try 100 times.
56    for _ in 0..100 {
57        // NSA Guide Steps 1, 2, and 3.
58        //
59        // Since we calculate the length ourselves, it is pointless to check
60        // it, since we can only check it by doing the same calculation.
61
62        // NSA Guide Step 4.
63        //
64        // The requirement that the random number generator has the
65        // requested security strength is delegated to `rng`.
66        rng.fill(candidate)?;
67
68        // NSA Guide Steps 5, 6, and 7.
69        if check_scalar_big_endian_bytes(ops, candidate).is_err() {
70            continue;
71        }
72
73        // NSA Guide Step 8 is done in `public_from_private()`.
74
75        // NSA Guide Step 9.
76        return Ok(());
77    }
78
79    Err(error::Unspecified)
80}
81
82// The underlying X25519 and Ed25519 code uses an [u8; 32] to store the private
83// key. To make the ECDH and ECDSA code similar to that, we also store the
84// private key that way, which means we have to convert it to a Scalar whenever
85// we need to use it.
86#[inline]
87pub fn private_key_as_scalar(ops: &PrivateKeyOps, private_key: &ec::Seed) -> Scalar {
88    // This cannot fail because we know the private key is valid.
89    scalar_from_big_endian_bytes(ops, private_key.bytes_less_safe()).unwrap()
90}
91
92pub fn check_scalar_big_endian_bytes(
93    ops: &PrivateKeyOps,
94    bytes: &[u8],
95) -> Result<(), error::Unspecified> {
96    debug_assert_eq!(bytes.len(), ops.common.len());
97    scalar_from_big_endian_bytes(ops, bytes).map(|_| ())
98}
99
100// Parses a fixed-length (zero-padded) big-endian-encoded scalar in the range
101// [1, n). This is constant-time with respect to the actual value *only if* the
102// value is actually in range. In other words, this won't leak anything about a
103// valid value, but it might leak small amounts of information about an invalid
104// value (which constraint it failed).
105pub fn scalar_from_big_endian_bytes(
106    ops: &PrivateKeyOps,
107    bytes: &[u8],
108) -> Result<Scalar, error::Unspecified> {
109    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to ECDSA] Appendix A.1.2, and
110    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to NIST SP 800-56A] Appendix B.2,
111    // "Key Pair Generation by Testing Candidates".
112    //
113    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to ECDSA]: doc/ecdsa.pdf
114    // [NSA Suite B Implementer's Guide to NIST SP 800-56A]: doc/ecdh.pdf
115    //
116    // Steps 5, 6, and 7.
117    //
118    // XXX: The NSA guide says that we should verify that the random scalar is
119    // in the range [0, n - 1) and then add one to it so that it is in the range
120    // [1, n). Instead, we verify that the scalar is in the range [1, n). This
121    // way, we avoid needing to compute or store the value (n - 1), we avoid the
122    // need to implement a function to add one to a scalar, and we avoid needing
123    // to convert the scalar back into an array of bytes.
124    scalar_parse_big_endian_fixed_consttime(ops.common, untrusted::Input::from(bytes))
125}
126
127pub fn public_from_private(
128    ops: &PrivateKeyOps,
129    public_out: &mut [u8],
130    my_private_key: &ec::Seed,
131) -> Result<(), error::Unspecified> {
132    let elem_and_scalar_bytes = ops.common.len();
133    debug_assert_eq!(public_out.len(), 1 + (2 * elem_and_scalar_bytes));
134    let my_private_key = private_key_as_scalar(ops, my_private_key);
135    let my_public_key = ops.point_mul_base(&my_private_key);
136    public_out[0] = 4; // Uncompressed encoding.
137    let (x_out, y_out) = public_out[1..].split_at_mut(elem_and_scalar_bytes);
138
139    // `big_endian_affine_from_jacobian` verifies that the point is not at
140    // infinity and is on the curve.
141    big_endian_affine_from_jacobian(ops, Some(x_out), Some(y_out), &my_public_key)
142}
143
144pub fn affine_from_jacobian(
145    ops: &PrivateKeyOps,
146    p: &Point,
147) -> Result<(Elem<R>, Elem<R>), error::Unspecified> {
148    let z = ops.common.point_z(p);
149
150    // Since we restrict our private key to the range [1, n), the curve has
151    // prime order, and we verify that the peer's point is on the curve,
152    // there's no way that the result can be at infinity. But, use `assert!`
153    // instead of `debug_assert!` anyway
154    assert!(ops.common.elem_verify_is_not_zero(&z).is_ok());
155
156    let x = ops.common.point_x(p);
157    let y = ops.common.point_y(p);
158
159    let zz_inv = ops.elem_inverse_squared(&z);
160
161    let x_aff = ops.common.elem_product(&x, &zz_inv);
162
163    // `y_aff` is needed to validate the point is on the curve. It is also
164    // needed in the non-ECDH case where we need to output it.
165    let y_aff = {
166        let zzzz_inv = ops.common.elem_squared(&zz_inv);
167        let zzz_inv = ops.common.elem_product(&z, &zzzz_inv);
168        ops.common.elem_product(&y, &zzz_inv)
169    };
170
171    // If we validated our inputs correctly and then computed (x, y, z), then
172    // (x, y, z) will be on the curve. See
173    // `verify_affine_point_is_on_the_curve_scaled` for the motivation.
174    verify_affine_point_is_on_the_curve(ops.common, (&x_aff, &y_aff))?;
175
176    Ok((x_aff, y_aff))
177}
178
179pub fn big_endian_affine_from_jacobian(
180    ops: &PrivateKeyOps,
181    x_out: Option<&mut [u8]>,
182    y_out: Option<&mut [u8]>,
183    p: &Point,
184) -> Result<(), error::Unspecified> {
185    let (x_aff, y_aff) = affine_from_jacobian(ops, p)?;
186    if let Some(x_out) = x_out {
187        let x = ops.common.elem_unencoded(&x_aff);
188        limb::big_endian_from_limbs(ops.leak_limbs(&x), x_out);
189    }
190    if let Some(y_out) = y_out {
191        let y = ops.common.elem_unencoded(&y_aff);
192        limb::big_endian_from_limbs(ops.leak_limbs(&y), y_out);
193    }
194
195    Ok(())
196}