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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:43:58 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To: George Spelvin <linux@...encehorizons.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 03:17:39PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> > That's a nice analysis. Might one conclude from that that hsiphash is
> > not useful for our purposes? Or does it still remain useful for
> > network facing code?
>
> I think for attacks where the threat is a DoS, it's usable. The point
> is you only have to raise the cost to equal that of a packet flood.
> (Just like in electronic warfare, the best you can possibly do is force
> the enemy to use broadband jamming.)
>
> Hash collision attacks just aren't that powerful. The original PoC
> was against an application that implemented a hard limit on hash chain
> length as a DoS defense, which the attack then exploited to turn it into
> a hard DoS.
What should we do with get_random_int() and get_random_long()? In
some cases it's being used in performance sensitive areas, and where
anti-DoS protection might be enough. In others, maybe not so much.
If we rekeyed the secret used by get_random_int() and
get_random_long() frequently (say, every minute or every 5 minutes),
would that be sufficient for current and future users of these
interfaces?
- Ted
P.S. I'll note that my performance figures when testing changes to
get_random_int() were done on a 32-bit x86; Jason, I'm guessing your
figures were using a 64-bit x86 system?. I haven't tried 32-bit ARM
or smaller CPU's (e.g., mips, et. al.) that might be more likely to be
used on IoT devices, but I'm worried about those too, of course.
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