I've written a simple program to setup valgrind to check for bad uses of secret data. Maybe you have heard of Adam Langley's ctgrind (https://github.com/agl/ctgrind), but it seems to work fine to use plain valgrind and mark the secret data with VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_UNDEFINED.
Non-silent algorithms include aes, camellia, cast128, twofish, arctwo, des, blowfish, gcm (the hashing), arcfour. Almost anything using sboxes.
Silent algorithms include serpent (sboxes, but with nice bit-slicing instead of tables), salsa20, chacha, poly1305.
Not sure if and how this testing could be added to a plain
make check EMULATOR='$(VALGRIND)'
As for AES, an implementations using the aesni instructions ought to be side-channel silent. And if one is concerned about side channel attacks on AES, but too conservative to jump to salsa20 or chacha, serpent might be a good alternative.
(I'll be doing a short talk on side-channel attacks on Southpole's 15 year anniversary party on November 7, so that's why I'm looking into this now).
Regards, /Niels
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#include "testutils.h" #include "nettle-internal.h"
#if !HAVE_VALGRIND_MEMCHECK_H void testmain (void) { SKIP (); } #else /* HAVE_VALGRIND_MEMCHECK_H */ #include <valgrind/memcheck.h>
static uint8_t * xalloc_secret (size_t size) { uint8_t *p = xalloc (size); memset (p, 0, size); VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_UNDEFINED (p, size); return p; }
static void test_sc_cipher (const struct nettle_cipher *cipher) { void *ctx; uint8_t *key; uint8_t *src; uint8_t *dst; ctx = xalloc (cipher->context_size); key = xalloc_secret (cipher->key_size); src = xalloc_secret (cipher->block_size); dst = xalloc (cipher->block_size);
cipher->set_encrypt_key (ctx, key); cipher->encrypt (ctx, cipher->block_size, dst, src);
free (ctx); free (key); free (src); free (dst); }
#define DATA_SIZE 32 static void test_sc_aead (const struct nettle_aead *aead) { void *ctx; uint8_t *key; uint8_t *nonce; uint8_t *src; uint8_t *data; uint8_t *dst; uint8_t *digest;
ctx = xalloc (aead->context_size); key = xalloc_secret (aead->key_size); nonce = xalloc_secret (aead->nonce_size); src = xalloc_secret (aead->block_size); data = xalloc_secret (DATA_SIZE); dst = xalloc (aead->block_size); digest = xalloc (aead->digest_size);
aead->set_encrypt_key (ctx, key); if (aead->set_nonce) aead->set_nonce (ctx, nonce); if (aead->update) aead->update (ctx, DATA_SIZE, data); aead->encrypt (ctx, aead->block_size, dst, src); if (aead->update) aead->digest (ctx, aead->digest_size, digest);
free (ctx); free (key); free (nonce); free (src); free (data); free (dst); free (digest); }
static const struct nettle_cipher * other_ciphers[] = { &nettle_des, &nettle_des3, &nettle_blowfish128, NULL, };
static const struct nettle_aead * other_aeads[] = { &nettle_arcfour128, &nettle_chacha, &nettle_salsa20, &nettle_salsa20r12, NULL, };
void test_main (void) { unsigned i; const struct nettle_cipher *cipher; const struct nettle_aead *aead; for (i = 0; ((cipher = nettle_ciphers[i])); i++) test_sc_cipher (cipher);
for (i = 0; ((cipher = other_ciphers[i])); i++) test_sc_cipher (cipher);
for (i = 0; ((aead = nettle_aeads[i])); i++) test_sc_aead (aead);
for (i = 0; ((aead = other_aeads[i])); i++) test_sc_aead (aead); }
#endif /* HAVE_VALGRIND_MEMCHECK_H */