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authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2011-05-25 14:43:47 +0000
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2011-05-25 14:43:47 +0000
commit1e368ab08fccdb824cb91bd7765880de0dbf2ea8 (patch)
treecfcd6c88ed3c2899080d3994d7283f317ba7803c /crypto
parent2c77c5c8dbbacb97c5ff9eea2fe274d5c92f72b8 (diff)
Fix the ECDSA timing attack mentioned in the paper at:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232.pdf Thanks to the original authors Billy Bob Brumley and Nicola Tuveri for bringing this to our attention.
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
-rw-r--r--crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c b/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c
index 551cf5068f..bbb5588cbe 100644
--- a/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c
+++ b/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c
@@ -144,6 +144,16 @@ static int ecdsa_sign_setup(EC_KEY *eckey, BN_CTX *ctx_in, BIGNUM **kinvp,
}
while (BN_is_zero(k));
+#ifdef ECDSA_POINT_MUL_NO_CONSTTIME
+ /* We do not want timing information to leak the length of k,
+ * so we compute G*k using an equivalent scalar of fixed
+ * bit-length. */
+
+ if (!BN_add(k, k, order)) goto err;
+ if (BN_num_bits(k) <= BN_num_bits(order))
+ if (!BN_add(k, k, order)) goto err;
+#endif /* def(ECDSA_POINT_MUL_NO_CONSTTIME) */
+
/* compute r the x-coordinate of generator * k */
if (!EC_POINT_mul(group, tmp_point, k, NULL, NULL, ctx))
{