Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/18] crypto: dh - implement private key generation
 primitive
To:     Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc:     =?UTF-8?Q?Stephan_M=c3=bcller?= <smueller@chronox.de>,
        Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>, Zaibo Xu <xuzaibo@huawei.com>,
        Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
        linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        qat-linux@intel.com, keyrings@vger.kernel.org
References: <20211201004858.19831-1-nstange@suse.de>
 <20211201004858.19831-10-nstange@suse.de>
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
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Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 08:28:46 +0100
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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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