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Commit 7f9822a4 authored by Matt Caswell's avatar Matt Caswell
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Add blinding to a DSA signature



This extends the recently added ECDSA signature blinding to blind DSA too.

This is based on side channel attacks demonstrated by Keegan Ryan (NCC
Group) for ECDSA which are likely to be able to be applied to DSA.

Normally, as in ECDSA, during signing the signer calculates:

s:= k^-1 * (m + r * priv_key) mod order

In ECDSA, the addition operation above provides a sufficient signal for a
flush+reload attack to derive the private key given sufficient signature
operations.

As a mitigation (based on a suggestion from Keegan) we add blinding to
the operation so that:

s := k^-1 * blind^-1 (blind * m + blind * r * priv_key) mod order

Since this attack is a localhost side channel only no CVE is assigned.

This commit also tweaks the previous ECDSA blinding so that blinding is
only removed at the last possible step.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6522)
parent 95aec864
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