You Hello, The spec should most likely mention AAD data as well and the 12 Byte size of the nonce. And that the plaintext Limit is in blocks (and the AAD Limit is a 64Bit counter)
(And yes there is no wrapping to be found, not even in RFC 8103 which discusses key transport,) Does it need to define what AP.getEncoded() format/OID looks like? Gruss Bernd -- http://bernd.eckenfels.net _____________________________ From: Jamil Nimeh <jamil.j.ni...@oracle.com> Sent: Donnerstag, Januar 25, 2018 6:31 PM Subject: Proposal: ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher implementations To: OpenJDK Dev list <security-dev@openjdk.java.net> Hello all, This is a proposal to introduce the ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher implementations into JDK. At a high level, the plan is to include both ChaCha20-Poly1305 and the base ChaCha20 stream cipher into JDK as part of the SunJCE provider initially, and then add TLS cipher suites as a follow-on feature. Both algorithms will be CipherSpi implementations and will generally conform to the details of that API. I will discuss below some of the details such as which flavors of init are supported, etc. * Instantiation * For ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305, the simple name will suffice: either "ChaCha20" for the basic stream cipher or "ChaCha20-Poly1305" for AEAD mode will work. You may however use the 3-element transform "ChaCha20/None/NoPadding" and "ChaCha20-Poly1305/None/NoPadding". Any other type of transformation string will cause NoSuchAlgorithmException to be thrown. * Initialization * All three engineInit methods in the CipherSpi API will be supported. Keys provided through the various Cipher init methods should have the algorithm String "ChaCha20" applied to it (case-insensitive). * For init/engineInit methods that take an AlgorithmParameterSpec, ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 use different APS classes. * ChaCha20 will have a new ChaCha20ParameterSpec which takes a nonce (byte[]) and a counter (int). This class will have getter methods to return those values if desired (getNonce() and getBlockCounter(), respectively). * ChaCha20-Poly1305 will use IvParameterSpec to provide the nonce. The primary reason this is being used instead of ChaCha20ParameterSpec is in order to make backporting to earlier JDK releases possible. Also there's no need to set a counter value, so it would end up being an ignored parameter. * For init calls where no AlgorithmParameterSpec or AlgorithmParameter has been provided, a random nonce will be set at initialization time. the counter value will be set to 1. The random nonce can be retrieved using the getIV() Cipher method or by using the getParameters() call and parsing the output from AlgorithmParameters.getEncoded(). * Use * ChaCha20 encrypt and decrypt operations would work as any stream cipher would - as many bytes of ciphertext are returned from an encrypt function as plaintext bytes submitted (and vice versa for decrypt). * ChaCha20-Poly1305 operates in a similar fashion to other AEAD ciphers. For encryption operations, as many bytes are returned as input submitted with the exception of the doFinal calls, which would return any remaining ciphertext plus an extra 16 bytes for the tag. For decryption, individual update calls return no plaintext. The plaintext is returned only after the last bytes of ciphertext are provided, the authentication tag is provided, and the doFinal call is made. Once the authentication tag has been verified then the plaintext will be returned. * The getOutputSize call will return the following * ChaCha20: Same value as the submitted input size * ChaCha20-Poly1305: For encrypt, the returned size will be the input size + 16 bytes for the tag. For decryption, the returned size will be input length - 16 bytes, or zero (whichever is larger). * Wrap and Unwrap: I have not been able to find a standardized wrap/unwrap format for ChaCha20 similar to RFC 3394 for AES. Right now the wrap() and unwrap() methods just take the encoding of the key to be wrapped and encrypts or decrypts them respectively. If anyone is aware of a wrapping format for ChaCha20 please let me know. My searches have so far come up empty. * Counter rollover protection will be enforced. For ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305, the cipher will cease to process input once the 32-bit counter space has been exhausted. * Nonce reuse protection: For both ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305: we will not allow reuse of the same nonce between two consecutive init() operations. * KeyGenerator * There will be a new KeyGenerator algorithm called "ChaCha20" which will create a 32-byte key suitable for use in either ChaCha20 or ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher instances. If you use forms of the KeyGenerator.init() that take a variable key length and you do something other than 32 bytes then you'll have InvalidParameterException thrown at you. * If you use a form of the init that takes an AlgorithmParameterSpec it will throw InvalidAlgorithmParameterSpecException. This is similar in behavior to other KeyGenerators like the HmacSHA-2 family, ARCFOUR, RC2, and AES. * Other TBD/in-progress items * ChaCha20Parameters: This will be added to com.sun.crypto.provider and will be able to provide an encoding for parameters used in ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 ciphers. * For ChaCha20-Poly1305, the default encoded form of the AlgorithmParameters will be the AEADChaCha20Poly1305Nonce from RFC 8103 section 3 (basically the nonce as an ASN.1 OCTET STRING of 12 bytes). * For ChaCha20 I have not been able to find a standardized encoding for ChaCha20 parameters. For lack of an official format I currently have it encoding the parameters as a SEQUENCE of an OCTET STRING (the nonce) and an INTEGER (the counter starting value). * Question: If a getParameters call on a cipher is called after the cipher has been in use for some time, should such an encoding provide the counter's current value, or the starting value at the time the cipher was initialized? * Backporting * We would like to backport this, but because we need the new ChaCha20ParameterSpec class to set the initial counter value ChaCha20 will not get backported. * ChaCha20-Poly1305 however can be backported, and the use of IvParameterSpec with ChaCha20-Poly1305 will allow this to happen. Being able to backport ChaCha20-Poly1305 also allows the TLS cipher suites to be backported when those get added (see below). * Questions concerning how far back this will be backported and in what timeframes are still TBD. * Things that will not be part of this proposal... * TLS Cipher suites: Yes, we will do this, but this will be done as follow-on work. This proposal covers just the JCA portion. I've already got TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, and TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 cipher suites working, so worry not! It is our plan to have these in JSSE. Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback so far and let's set a closure date on the discussion for two weeks from now. I think we should be able to hammer out any questions/concerns within that timeframe. --Jamil
