RFR: ChaCha20 and ChaCha20/Poly1305 Cipher implementations

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Tue May 8 17:49:48 UTC 2018


- ChaCha20ParameterSpec.java

The methods don't need to be final now that the class is final.

- ChaCha20Poly1305Parameters.java

  122         if (decodingMethod.equalsIgnoreCase(DEFAULT_FMT)) {
  123             engineInit(encoded);

The spec for engineInit() says if decodingMethod is null, the default 
encoding should be used, so the code above should be:

  122         if (decodingMethod == null || 
decodingMethod.equalsIgnoreCase(DEFAULT_FMT)) {
  123             engineInit(encoded);

Looks good otherwise.

--Sean

On 5/4/18 10:06 AM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
> Round 5.
> 
> This adds Sean's comments.  Sean, I was never able to execute a case on 
> init where a half-baked object would fail.  In most cases it would fail 
> in checks in javax.crypto.Cipher before it ever made it down to my 
> code.  I'm pretty confident the init sequence is OK.  I did move the 
> setting of a few data members toward the end of the init sequence but 
> setting the key and nonce is necessary before creating the initial 
> state, which is then used for generating an authentication key for AEAD 
> mode and generating keystream.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.05
> 
> Also the CSR has been finalized and can be found here:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198925
> 
> --Jamil
> 
> On 04/27/2018 02:21 PM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>
>> Round 4 of updates for ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305, minor stuff mostly:
>>
>>   * Added words in the description of javax.crypto.Cipher recommending
>>     callers reinitialize the Cipher to use different nonces after each
>>     complete encryption or decryption (similar language to what exists
>>     already for AES-GCM encryption).
>>   * Added an additional test case for ChaCha20NoReuse
>>   * Made accessor methods for ChaCha20ParameterSpec final and cleaned
>>     up the code a bit based on comments from the field.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.04/
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Jamil
>>
>>
>> On 04/13/2018 11:59 AM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>> Round 3 of updates for ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305:
>>>
>>> * Removed the key field in ChaCha20 and Poly1305 implementations and 
>>> only retain the key bytes as an object field (thanks Thomas for 
>>> catching this)
>>>
>>> * Added additional protections against key/nonce reuse.  This is a 
>>> behavioral change to ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305. Instances of 
>>> these ciphers will no longer allow you to do subsequent 
>>> doUpdate/doFinal calls after the first doFinal without 
>>> re-initializing the cipher with either a new key or nonce. Attempting 
>>> to reuse the cipher without a new initialization will throw an 
>>> IllegalStateException.  This is similar to the behavior of AES-GCM in 
>>> encrypt mode, but for ChaCha20 it needs to be done for both encrypt 
>>> and decrypt.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.03/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Jamil
>>>
>>> On 04/10/2018 03:34 PM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> This is a quick update to the previous webrev:
>>>>
>>>> * When using the form of engineInit that does only takes op, key and 
>>>> random, the nonce will always be random even if the random parameter 
>>>> is null.  A default instance of SecureRandom will be used to create 
>>>> the nonce in this case, instead of all zeroes.
>>>>
>>>> * Unused debug code was removed from the ChaCha20Cipher.java file
>>>>
>>>> * ChaCha20Parameters.engineToString no longer obtains the line 
>>>> separator from a System property directly.  It calls 
>>>> System.lineSeparator() similar to how other AlgorithmParameter 
>>>> classes in com.sun.crypto.provider do it.
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.02/
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> --Jamil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/26/2018 12:08 PM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a request for review for the ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 
>>>>> cipher implementations.  Links to the webrev and the JEP which 
>>>>> outlines the characteristics and behavior of the ciphers are listed 
>>>>> below.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.01/
>>>>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/329
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> --Jamil
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 



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