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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_SUB_C
/* LibTomMath, multiple-precision integer library -- Tom St Denis */
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense */

/* high level subtraction (handles signs) */
mp_err mp_sub(const mp_int *a, const mp_int *b, mp_int *c)
{
   mp_sign sa = a->sign, sb = b->sign;
   mp_err err;

   if (sa != sb) {
      /* subtract a negative from a positive, OR */
      /* subtract a positive from a negative. */
      /* In either case, ADD their magnitudes, */
      /* and use the sign of the first number. */
      c->sign = sa;
      err = s_mp_add(a, b, c);
   } else {
      /* subtract a positive from a positive, OR */
      /* subtract a negative from a negative. */
      /* First, take the difference between their */
      /* magnitudes, then... */
      if (mp_cmp_mag(a, b) != MP_LT) {
         /* Copy the sign from the first */
         c->sign = sa;
         /* The first has a larger or equal magnitude */
         err = s_mp_sub(a, b, c);
      } else {
         /* The result has the *opposite* sign from */
         /* the first number. */
         c->sign = (sa == MP_ZPOS) ? MP_NEG : MP_ZPOS;
         /* The second has a larger magnitude */
         err = s_mp_sub(b, a, c);
      }
   }
   return err;
}

#endif