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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:56:10 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [patch] optional new raw sha1 implemetation

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:43:12AM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2012-06-17 01:58, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:46:00AM +0200, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> >>On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:42:07AM +0200, magnum wrote:
> >>>>>On a third thought, are we not actually guaranteed there will be a
> >>>>>zero byte? They are zeroed in set_key().
> >>>>>
> >>>>>magnum
> >>>>
> >>>>I dont think so, for example, consider testing two 15 byte keys, I would
> >>>>store them in contiguous aligned buffers like this:
> >>>>
> >>>>41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 80
> >>>>41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 42 80
> >>>>00 00 00 ...
> >>>>
> >>>>get_key(0) with strrchr would return AAAAAAAAA\x80AAAAAAAAAAAB, no?
> >>>
> >>>OK, so let's just put a zero in ((unsigned char*)key)[15] before the
> >>>strrchr. That ought to work fine, right?
> >>>
> >>>magnum
> >>
> >>Hmm, you mean make key[] in sha1_fmt_get_key 5 instead of 4? Hmm, I think
> >>that sounds okay.
> >>
> >>Tavis.
> >>
> >
> >Oh, i think if I put string.h first and #define _GNU_SOURCE, the
> >prototype becomes visible. I think I'll just do that unless you object.
> >
> >Annoying that such preprocessor voodoo is required to get such a basic
> >protoype..wtf.
> 
> No, that was what I did first but memrchr is not portable. Not
> everyone runs GNU or Linux. I think allocating a 17 byte key and
> ensure the last is null is the simplest fix. In fact we only need to
> to this once as we never overwrite it:
> 
> static uint32_t *result;
> if (!result)
> 	result = mem_calloc_tiny(SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE + 1, MEM_ALIGN_WORD);
> 
> I'll commit the above for now but you are obviously free to change it
> to something else.
> 
> magnum

I don't think that will change anything. If you want to make key 5 words
instead of 4 in sha1_fmt_get_key, that will allow you to use strrchr
safely.

e.g.

- static uint32_t key[4];
+ static uint32_t key[5];

Although i think it's not very elegant :-)

Tavis.

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