On Fri, 2021-04-09 at 16:08 +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 09:08:20AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > > > > > > And how do you handle all the other places in the kernel that use > > > > > > > ChaCha20 and > > > > > > > SipHash? For example, drivers/char/random.c? > > > > > > > > > > > > Good question, I will check it and reply to you later. > > > > > > > > > > I just read the code. The drivers/char/random.c do has some fips > > > > > specific > > > > > parts(seems not related to crypto). After commit e192be9d9a30 > > > > > ("random: > > > > > replace > > > > > non-blocking pool with a Chacha20-based CRNG") we moved part of chacha > > > > > code to > > > > > lib/chacha20.c and make that code out of control. > > > > > > > > > So you are saying that you removed drivers/char/random.c and > > > > lib/chacha20.c from > > > > your FIPS module boundary? Why not do the same for WireGuard? > > > > > > No, I mean this looks like a bug (using not allowed crypto in FIPS mode) > > > and > > > we should fix it. > > > > The entirety of random.c is not compliant to FIPS rules. ChaCha20 is the > > least > > of the problems. SP800-90B is the challenge. This is one of the motivation > > of > > the design and architecture of the LRNG allowing different types of crypto > > and > > have a different approach to post-process the data. > > > > https://github.com/smuellerDD/lrng > > Thanks Stephan for this info. After offline discussion with Herbert, here is > what he said: > > """ > This is not a problem in RHEL8 because the Crypto API RNG replaces /dev/random > in FIPS mode. > """ > > I'm not familiar with this code, not sure how upstream handle this.
It is an open problem upstream. Simo. -- Simo Sorce RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc