On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:41:34PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Add an implementation of HKDF (RFC 5869) to fscrypt, for the purpose of > deriving additional key material from the fscrypt master keys for v2 > encryption policies. HKDF is a key derivation function built on top of > HMAC. We choose SHA-512 for the underlying unkeyed hash, and use an > "hmac(sha512)" transform allocated from the crypto API. > > We'll be using this to replace the AES-ECB based KDF currently used to > derive the per-file encryption keys. While the AES-ECB based KDF is > believed to meet the original security requirements, it is nonstandard > and has problems that don't exist in modern KDFs such as HKDF: > > 1. It's reversible. Given a derived key and nonce, an attacker can > easily compute the master key. This is okay if the master key and > derived keys are equally hard to compromise, but now we'd like to be > more robust against threats such as a derived key being compromised > through a timing attack, or a derived key for an in-use file being > compromised after the master key has already been removed. > > 2. It doesn't evenly distribute the entropy from the master key; each 16 > input bytes only affects the corresponding 16 output bytes. > > 3. It isn't easily extensible to deriving other values or keys, such as > a public hash for securely identifying the key, or per-mode keys. > Per-mode keys will be immediately useful for Adiantum encryption, for > which fscrypt currently uses the master key directly, introducing > unnecessary usage constraints. Per-mode keys will also be useful for > hardware inline encryption, which is currently being worked on. > > HKDF solves all the above problems. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Unless I missed something there's nothing here which is fscrypt specific. Granted that it's somewhat unlikely that someone would want to implement (the very bloated) IKE from IPSEC in the kernel, I wonder if there might be other users of HKDF, and whether this would be better placed in lib/ or crypto/ instead of fs/crypto? Other than that, looks good. Feel free to add: Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
