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Introduce extra delay before closing unauthenticated sessions To make it harder for attackers, introduce a delay to keep an unauthenticated session open a bit longer, thus blocking a connection slot until after the delay. Without this, while there is a limit on the amount of attempts an attacker can make at the same time (MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP), the time taken by dropbear to handle one attempt is still short and thus for each of the allowed parallel attempts many attempts can be chained one after the other. The attempt rate is then: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / <process time of one attempt>". With the delay, this rate becomes: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / UNAUTH_CLOSE_DELAY".
author Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
date Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:53:04 +0100
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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"

/**
  Source donated by Elliptic Semiconductor Inc (www.ellipticsemi.com) to the LibTom Projects
*/

#ifdef LTC_XTS_MODE

/** Start XTS mode
   @param cipher      The index of the cipher to use
   @param key1        The encrypt key
   @param key2        The tweak encrypt key
   @param keylen      The length of the keys (each) in octets
   @param num_rounds  The number of rounds for the cipher (0 == default)
   @param xts         [out] XTS structure
   Returns CRYPT_OK upon success.
*/
int xts_start(int cipher, const unsigned char *key1, const unsigned char *key2, unsigned long keylen, int num_rounds,
              symmetric_xts *xts)
{
   int err;

   /* check inputs */
   LTC_ARGCHK(key1 != NULL);
   LTC_ARGCHK(key2 != NULL);
   LTC_ARGCHK(xts != NULL);

   /* check if valid */
   if ((err = cipher_is_valid(cipher)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err;
   }

   if (cipher_descriptor[cipher].block_length != 16) {
      return CRYPT_INVALID_ARG;
   }

   /* schedule the two ciphers */
   if ((err = cipher_descriptor[cipher].setup(key1, keylen, num_rounds, &xts->key1)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err;
   }
   if ((err = cipher_descriptor[cipher].setup(key2, keylen, num_rounds, &xts->key2)) != CRYPT_OK) {
      return err;
   }
   xts->cipher = cipher;

   return err;
}

#endif

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