According to SP800-90A, the DRBG seeding process should use a nonce
of length `security_strength / 2` bits as part of the DRBG seed. It
further notes that this nonce may be drawn from the same source of
entropy that is used for the first `security_strength` bits of the
DRBG seed. The present HMAC DRBG implementation does that, requesting
`security_strength * 3 / 2` bits of entropy from the configured entropy
source in total to form the initial part of the DRBG seed.
However, some entropy sources may have thresholds in terms of how much
entropy they can provide in a single call to their entropy gathering
function which may be exceeded by the present HMAC DRBG implementation
even if the threshold is not smaller than `security_strength` bits.
Specifically, this is the case for our own entropy module implementation
which only allows requesting at most 32 Bytes of entropy at a time
in configurations disabling SHA-512, and this leads to runtime failure
of HMAC DRBG when used with Mbed Crypto' own entropy callbacks in such
configurations.
This commit fixes this by splitting the seed entropy acquisition into
two calls, one requesting `security_strength` bits first, and another
one requesting `security_strength / 2` bits for the nonce.
Fixes#237.
Deprecate mbedtls_hmac_drbg_update (which returns void) in favor of a
new function mbedtls_hmac_drbg_update_ret which reports error. The old
function is not officially marked as deprecated in this branch because
this is a stable maintenance branch.
Note from future self: actually md_init_ctx will be re-introduced with the
same signature later, and a new function with the additional argument will be
added.
- more freedom for us to change it in the future
- enforces hygiene
- performance impact of making accessors no longer inline should really be
negligible
* mbedtls-1.3:
Use link-time garbage collection in memory.sh
scripts/memory.sh only work on Linux
Add missing 'const' on selftest data
Use only headers for doxygen (no doc in C files)
Add missing extern "C" guard in aesni.h
Fix compile error with renego disabled
Remove slow PKCS5 test
Stop checking key-cert match systematically
Make tests/*.sh runnable from anywhere
Update visual C files
