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Replace ChanType.sepfds with Channel.bidir_fd This handles the case where a svrchansess has separate FDs for nopty, but a single FD for pty mode. The use of sepfds was also previously incorrect for X11 and agent forwarding
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1 Tech Note 0004
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2 Using Yarrow, Fortuna and SOBER-128
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3 Tom St Denis
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5 Introduction
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6 ------------
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8 This tech note explains how to use three of the more useful pseudo random number generators and their
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9 own little "issues". While all of the PRNGs have the same API and are roughly used in the same
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10 manner their effectiveness really depends on the user knowing how they work.
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13 Yarrow
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16 Yarrow is by far the simplest of the PRNGs. It gathers bits of entropy by hashing the pool state
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17 plus the additional bits storing the message digest back in the pool. E.g.
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19 pool = hash(pool || newbits)
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21 Simply dump bits into the PRNG via yarrow_add_entropy() and call yarrow_ready() when you want to
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22 put them to use. This PRNG while simple is not entirely safe. An attacker who learns the state
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23 of the pool and can control future events can control the PRNG. This requires an active attacker but
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24 isn't entire impossible.
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26 The pool is then used as a key for a cipher that is used in CTR mode.
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28 Yarrow is mostly meant for short-term programs [e.g. like file utils]. This particular implementation
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29 is not meant for long-term usage.
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31 Fortuna
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34 Fortuna was designed by Niels Fergusson and Bruce Schneier [Bruce is also the guy who invented Yarrow]. It
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35 operates on a more defensive level than Yarrow. Instead of 1 entropy pool it has 32 and the new entropy
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36 is spread [round robin] in all of the pools.
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38 That is, each call to fortuna_add_entropy() puts the bits in the next [in the sequenece] pool of entropy.
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39 Effective bits are added to the pool by sending them through a hash [but not terminating the hash].
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41 Here's the main catch though. When the PRNG must be reseeded [so that you can extract bits from it] only
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42 certain pools are used. More precisely the i'th pool is used every 2**i'th reseeding. For example, pool[0]
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43 is always used. pool[1] is used every second reseeding, pool[2] every fourth.
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45 The pools are hashed together along with the current key and the result is the new key for a cipher which
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46 operates in CTR mode [more about that in a sec].
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48 Now this may seem odd at first however there is a good reason behind it. An attacker who learns pool[0] won't
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49 strictly know the other pools. So the recovery rate of is not 0. In fact pool[0] can be completely
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50 compromised and the PRNG will still eventually recover. The value FORTUNA_WD is the "WatchDog" counter.
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51 Every FORTUNA_WD calls to fortuna_read will invoke the reseed operation. By default this is set to 10 which
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52 means after 10 calls the PRNG will reseed itself.
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54 The pools are combined with the running cipher key [256 bits] so that a cipher in CTR mode can produce
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55 the stream. Unlike Yarrow the cipher is re-keyed after every call to fortuna_read() [so one big call
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56 would be faster than many smaller calls]. This prevents too much data being encrypted under the same
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57 key [and mitigates a flaw in CTR mode that the same block can't be emitted twice under the same key].
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59 Fortuna is really meant for a kernel-level PRNG. The more sources [and often] you feed into it the
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60 healthier it will be. It's also meant to be used for long term purposes. Since it can recover from
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61 compromises it is harder to control it.
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63 SOBER-128
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66 SOBER-128 is actually a stream cipher but like most ciphers can easily be modelled in the context of a PRNG.
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67 This PRNG is extremely fast [4 cycles/byte on a P4] and was designed by a well known cryptographer [Greg Rose].
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69 SOBER-128 doesn't really "act" like the other two PRNGs. It's meant to be seeded once and then read as
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70 required. In such a sense it isn't a "system PRNG" but useful short term purposes. In particular
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71 the sober128_read() function actually XORs against the input buffer you specify. This allows the
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72 read() function to be used as an "encrypt" function as well.
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74 You can only key SOBER-128 once [by calling sober128_add_entropy()]. Once it it is keyed subsequent
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75 calls to add_entropy() will be considered a "re-IV" operation. Changing the IV allows you to use same
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76 initial key and not produce the same output stream. It also lets you differentiate packets. E.g. each
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77 packet has it's own IV.
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79 All inputs to sober128_add_entropy() must have a length that is a multiple of four.
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81 Overall
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84 Since SOBER-128 is *much* faster than the other two PRNGs a good setup would be to use Fortuna as your
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85 system-wide PRNG and use SOBER-128 [key'ed from Fortuna] for encrypting streams or as a PRNG for
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86 simulations.
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88 Yarrow is still a good candidate but only for "short lived" programs. However, since Fortuna is faster
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89 [by about 10 cycles/byte on a P4] I'd use Fortuna anyways...
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91 Tom