commit 3462280f2e23e16adf3ed5176e0f2413d8861320
Author: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
Date: Fri May 21 11:15:07 2021 +0900
cipher: Fix ElGamal encryption for other implementations.
* cipher/elgamal.c (gen_k): Remove support of smaller K.
(do_encrypt): Never use smaller K.
(sign): Folllow the change of gen_k.
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Cherry-pick master commit of:
632d80ef30e13de6926d503aa697f92b5dbfbc5e
This change basically reverts encryption changes in two commits:
74386120dad6b3da62db37f7044267c8ef34689b
78531373a342aeb847950f404343a05e36022065
Use of smaller K for ephemeral key in ElGamal encryption is only good,
when we can guarantee that recipient's key is generated by our
implementation (or compatible).
For detail, please see:
Luca De Feo, Bertram Poettering, Alessandro Sorniotti,
"On the (in)security of ElGamal in OpenPGP";
in the proceedings of CCS'2021.
CVE-id: CVE-2021-33560
GnuPG-bug-id: 5328
Suggested-by: Luca De Feo, Bertram Poettering, Alessandro Sorniotti
Signed-off-by: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
diff --git a/cipher/elgamal.c b/cipher/elgamal.c
index 9835122f..eead4502 100644
--- a/cipher/elgamal.c
+++ b/cipher/elgamal.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static const char *elg_names[] =
static int test_keys (ELG_secret_key *sk, unsigned int nbits, int nodie);
-static gcry_mpi_t gen_k (gcry_mpi_t p, int small_k);
+static gcry_mpi_t gen_k (gcry_mpi_t p);
static gcry_err_code_t generate (ELG_secret_key *sk, unsigned nbits,
gcry_mpi_t **factors);
static int check_secret_key (ELG_secret_key *sk);
@@ -189,11 +189,10 @@ test_keys ( ELG_secret_key *sk, unsigned int nbits, int nodie )
/****************
* Generate a random secret exponent k from prime p, so that k is
- * relatively prime to p-1. With SMALL_K set, k will be selected for
- * better encryption performance - this must never be used signing!
+ * relatively prime to p-1.
*/
static gcry_mpi_t
-gen_k( gcry_mpi_t p, int small_k )
+gen_k( gcry_mpi_t p )
{
gcry_mpi_t k = mpi_alloc_secure( 0 );
gcry_mpi_t temp = mpi_alloc( mpi_get_nlimbs(p) );
@@ -202,18 +201,7 @@ gen_k( gcry_mpi_t p, int small_k )
unsigned int nbits, nbytes;
char *rndbuf = NULL;
- if (small_k)
- {
- /* Using a k much lesser than p is sufficient for encryption and
- * it greatly improves the encryption performance. We use
- * Wiener's table and add a large safety margin. */
- nbits = wiener_map( orig_nbits ) * 3 / 2;
- if( nbits >= orig_nbits )
- BUG();
- }
- else
- nbits = orig_nbits;
-
+ nbits = orig_nbits;
nbytes = (nbits+7)/8;
if( DBG_CIPHER )
@@ -492,7 +480,7 @@ do_encrypt(gcry_mpi_t a, gcry_mpi_t b, gcry_mpi_t input, ELG_public_key *pkey )
* error code.
*/
- k = gen_k( pkey->p, 1 );
+ k = gen_k( pkey->p );
mpi_powm (a, pkey->g, k, pkey->p);
/* b = (y^k * input) mod p
@@ -608,7 +596,7 @@ sign(gcry_mpi_t a, gcry_mpi_t b, gcry_mpi_t input, ELG_secret_key *skey )
*
*/
mpi_sub_ui(p_1, p_1, 1);
- k = gen_k( skey->p, 0 /* no small K ! */ );
+ k = gen_k( skey->p );
mpi_powm( a, skey->g, k, skey->p );
mpi_mul(t, skey->x, a );
mpi_subm(t, input, t, p_1 );