RFR: ChaCha20 and ChaCha20/Poly1305 Cipher implementations

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Wed May 30 20:23:26 UTC 2018


The updated webrev looks good. I have no further comments.

--Sean

On 5/22/18 4:43 PM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
> A couple updates:
> 
>   * Touched up the comments surrounding init/wrap/unwrap methods. None
>     of these affect public javadocs.
>   * Added an implementation for engineGetParameters.  This was something
>     that just got forgotten from the initial development of the cipher
>     when there were no AlgorithmParameter implementations.
>       o There are a couple tests added to ChaCha20Poly1305ParamTest to
>         exercise these new code paths.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.08
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Jamil
> 
> 
> On 5/21/2018 11:36 AM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>
>> And the fun just keeps going!  Round 7.
>>
>> This revision removes wrap/unwrap support for ChaCha20 and 
>> ChaCha20-Poly1305 until there is a standardized key wrapping approach 
>> for these ciphers (similar to how AES has its own key wrapping scheme 
>> in RFC 3394).
>>
>> Initializing the cipher with WRAP/UNWRAP mode will throw 
>> UnsupportedOperationException and likewise the wrap/unwrap methods 
>> will throw IllegalStateException.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.07/
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Jamil
>>
>>
>> On 05/16/2018 12:05 PM, Jamil Nimeh wrote:
>>>
>>> Round 6.
>>>
>>> This brings ChaCha20/ChaCha20-Poly1305 into conformance with Cipher's 
>>> specification when forms of init that take AlgorithmParameters or 
>>> AlgorithmParameterSpec are used. Previously, a non-null AP or APS 
>>> object was required.  In order to better conform to the 
>>> specification, if a null AP or APS is provided for these ciphers, a 
>>> random nonce will be generated and the counter will be set to 1, just 
>>> as is currently done with valid forms of init that don't take an AP 
>>> or APS object (e.g. Cipher.init(int, Key, SecureRandom) ). Per the 
>>> spec in Cipher, this is only true for ENCRYPT_MODE and will throw 
>>> InvalidKeyException when done in DECRYPT_MODE.
>>>
>>> I also added a few test cases that exercise these code paths in the 
>>> ChaCha20Poly1305Parameters.java test case.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jnimeh/reviews/8153028/webrev.06/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --Jamil
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/04/2018 07:06 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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