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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"

/**
   @file dsa_make_key.c
   DSA implementation, generate a DSA key
*/

#ifdef LTC_MDSA

/**
  Create a DSA key
  @param prng          An active PRNG state
  @param wprng         The index of the PRNG desired
  @param key           [in/out] Where to store the created key
  @return CRYPT_OK if successful.
*/
int dsa_generate_key(prng_state *prng, int wprng, dsa_key *key)
{
  int err;

  LTC_ARGCHK(key         != NULL);
  LTC_ARGCHK(ltc_mp.name != NULL);

  /* so now we have our DH structure, generator g, order q, modulus p
     Now we need a random exponent [mod q] and it's power g^x mod p
   */
  /* private key x should be from range: 1 <= x <= q-1 (see FIPS 186-4 B.1.2) */
  if ((err = rand_bn_upto(key->x, key->q, prng, wprng)) != CRYPT_OK)          { return err; }
  if ((err = mp_exptmod(key->g, key->x, key->p, key->y)) != CRYPT_OK)            { return err; }
  key->type = PK_PRIVATE;

  return CRYPT_OK;
}

#endif

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