commit | b3ac6bb39ad3f980dccae24dfacd97b6e3e57391 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | David Benjamin <davidben@google.com> | Sun Oct 20 10:53:17 2019 -0400 |
committer | CQ bot account: commit-bot@chromium.org <commit-bot@chromium.org> | Fri Jan 03 16:41:59 2020 +0000 |
tree | dae189630ad5bae7961494590158ea2f4175be46 | |
parent | cbae965ca03825d517efe98cf7b8812584cab4a0 [diff] |
Replace aes_nohw with a bitsliced implementation. aes_nohw is currently one of several variable-time table-based implementations in C or assembly (armv4, x86, and x86_64). Replace all of these with a C bitsliced implementation, with 32-bit, 64-bit, and 128-bit (SSE2) variants. This is based on the algorithms described in: https://bearssl.org/constanttime.html#aes https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/129.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/191.pdf This makes our AES implementation constant-time in all build configurations! There were far too many benchmarks to put in the commit message. Instead, please refer to this fancy spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wDCzfkPl7brfjWJKq55awQjwCPhOYI8O7zSQZuEc2Xg/edit?usp=sharing Parallel modes on x86 and x86_64 do fine due to the SSE2 code. AES-GCM actually gets faster. The 64-bit (4x) bitsliced implementation is less effective at speeding parallel modes but still helps. The 32-bit (2x) bitsliced implementation even less. Non-parallel modes, sadly, take a *dramatic* performance hit. I tried a constant-time table lookup for comparison, but bitslicing was still better. This implementation performs comparably to the table in BearSSL's documentation, which suggests I didn't do anything obviously wrong. (Note BearSSL's table for 'ct' corresponds to a 32-bit bitsliced implementation compiled for 64-bit. Compiling this implementation for 64-bit matches, but compiling it for 32-bit seems to be considerably slower.) Assumptions that may make this palatable: - AES-GCM is by far the most important AES mode, and we perform okay with it. Modern things aren't built out of CBC. - A nontrivial chunk of Chrome users on Windows don't have SSSE3 and would be affected by this change. They would get the SSE2 version which performs well for AES-GCM *and* is constant-time. - ARM devices are primarily mobile which cycles hardware much faster. Chrome for Android has required NEON for several years now, so it would not run this code. (Aside from https://crbug.com/341598.) - aarch64 mandates NEON, so it would not run this code. - QUIC packet number encryption does use a one-off block operation, but only once per packet. - Arguably this is undoing a performance gain that we never earned. That said, it was a dramatic performance gain in places. As an alternative, we could just check in the SSE2 version and drop the x86 and x86_64 table-based assembly, but this still leaves the generic code with cache-timing side channels. Change-Id: I0f4b4467a49790509503c529d7c0940318096a00 Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/39206 Commit-Queue: Adam Langley <agl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
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