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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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#include "tommath_private.h"
#ifdef BN_MP_RAND_C
/* LibTomMath, multiple-precision integer library -- Tom St Denis */
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense */

/* Dropbear sets this separately, avoid platform code */
mp_err(*s_mp_rand_source)(void *out, size_t size) = NULL;

void mp_rand_source(mp_err(*source)(void *out, size_t size))
{
   /* Dropbear, don't reset to platform if source==NULL */
   s_mp_rand_source = source;
}

mp_err mp_rand(mp_int *a, int digits)
{
   int i;
   mp_err err;

   mp_zero(a);

   if (digits <= 0) {
      return MP_OKAY;
   }

   if ((err = mp_grow(a, digits)) != MP_OKAY) {
      return err;
   }

   if ((err = s_mp_rand_source(a->dp, (size_t)digits * sizeof(mp_digit))) != MP_OKAY) {
      return err;
   }

   /* TODO: We ensure that the highest digit is nonzero. Should this be removed? */
   while ((a->dp[digits - 1] & MP_MASK) == 0u) {
      if ((err = s_mp_rand_source(a->dp + digits - 1, sizeof(mp_digit))) != MP_OKAY) {
         return err;
      }
   }

   a->used = digits;
   for (i = 0; i < digits; ++i) {
      a->dp[i] &= MP_MASK;
   }

   return MP_OKAY;
}
#endif