view libtomcrypt/src/prngs/rng_make_prng.c @ 1930:299f4f19ba19

Add /usr/sbin and /sbin to default root PATH When dropbear is used in a very restricted environment (such as in a initrd), the default user shell is often also very restricted and doesn't take care of setting the PATH so the user ends up with the PATH set by dropbear. Unfortunately, dropbear always sets "/usr/bin:/bin" as default PATH even for the root user which should have /usr/sbin and /sbin too. For a concrete instance of this problem, see the "Remote Unlocking" section in this tutorial: https://paxswill.com/blog/2013/11/04/encrypted-raspberry-pi/ It speaks of a bug in the initramfs script because it's written "blkid" instead of "/sbin/blkid"... this is just because the scripts from the initramfs do not expect to have a PATH without the sbin directories and because dropbear is not setting the PATH appropriately for the root user. I'm thus suggesting to use the attached patch to fix this misbehaviour (I did not test it, but it's easy enough). It might seem anecdotic but multiple Kali users have been bitten by this. From https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903403
author Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
date Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:27:53 +0200
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/* LibTomCrypt, modular cryptographic library -- Tom St Denis
 *
 * LibTomCrypt is a library that provides various cryptographic
 * algorithms in a highly modular and flexible manner.
 *
 * The library is free for all purposes without any express
 * guarantee it works.
 */
#include "tomcrypt.h"

#ifdef LTC_RNG_MAKE_PRNG
/**
  @file rng_make_prng.c
  portable way to get secure random bits to feed a PRNG  (Tom St Denis)
*/

/**
  Create a PRNG from a RNG
  @param bits     Number of bits of entropy desired (64 ... 1024)
  @param wprng    Index of which PRNG to setup
  @param prng     [out] PRNG state to initialize
  @param callback A pointer to a void function for when the RNG is slow, this can be NULL
  @return CRYPT_OK if successful
*/
int rng_make_prng(int bits, int wprng, prng_state *prng,
                  void (*callback)(void))
{
   unsigned char buf[256];
   int err;

   LTC_ARGCHK(prng != NULL);

   /* check parameter */
   if ((err = prng_is_valid(wprng)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err;
   }

   if (bits < 64 || bits > 1024) {
      return CRYPT_INVALID_PRNGSIZE;
   }

   if ((err = prng_descriptor[wprng].start(prng)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err;
   }

   bits = ((bits/8)+((bits&7)!=0?1:0)) * 2;
   if (rng_get_bytes(buf, (unsigned long)bits, callback) != (unsigned long)bits) {
      return CRYPT_ERROR_READPRNG;
   }

   if ((err = prng_descriptor[wprng].add_entropy(buf, (unsigned long)bits, prng)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err;
   }

   if ((err = prng_descriptor[wprng].ready(prng)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err;
   }

   #ifdef LTC_CLEAN_STACK
      zeromem(buf, sizeof(buf));
   #endif
   return CRYPT_OK;
}
#endif /* #ifdef LTC_RNG_MAKE_PRNG */


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