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nebula/noiseutil/fips140.go
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Wade Simmons 9c5d701648 Support native Golang "fips140" mode (#1696)
Add support for the "fips140" mode of Go:

- https://go.dev/doc/security/fips140
- https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/certificate/5247

You can build with `make fips140`, see the README changes for more info.

Some differences from the boringcrypto builds:

- We switch to using `go:linkname crypto/tls.aeadAESGCMTLS13`, which gives us the fips implementation for both `boringcrypto` and `fips140` modes. This means we also no longer need `-checklinkname=0`
- Go native `fips140` doesn't need CGO_ENABLED=1
- We decide if we should use the fips140 GCM at runtime, if `fips140.Enabled()` is true. If you use the `make release-fips140`, we build with build tag `fips140enforce` which ensures the binary is running with fips140 enabled and that only P256 / AES-GCM is being used. If you don't want this enforce mode, you can build without the build tag.
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package noiseutil
import (
"bytes"
"crypto/cipher"
"crypto/fips140"
"encoding/binary"
"errors"
"fmt"
"reflect"
"runtime"
"unsafe"
// unsafe needed for go:linkname
_ "crypto/tls"
_ "unsafe"
"github.com/flynn/noise"
)
// TODO: Use NewGCMWithCounterNonce or NewGCMForQUIC once available:
// - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73110
// - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/79219
// Using tls.aeadAESGCMTLS13 gives us the TLS 1.3 GCM, which also verifies
// that the nonce is strictly increasing. This works for both boringcrypto
// and fips140.
//
//go:linkname aeadAESGCMTLS13 crypto/tls.aeadAESGCMTLS13
func aeadAESGCMTLS13(key, noncePrefix []byte) cipher.AEAD
type cipherFn struct {
fn func([32]byte) noise.Cipher
name string
}
func (c cipherFn) Cipher(k [32]byte) noise.Cipher { return c.fn(k) }
func (c cipherFn) CipherName() string { return c.name }
// CipherAESGCMFIPS140 is the AES256-GCM AEAD cipher (using tls.aeadAESGCMTLS13, for both boringcrypto and fips140)
var CipherAESGCMFIPS140 noise.CipherFunc = cipherFn{cipherAESGCMFIPS140, "AESGCM"}
// tls.aeadAESGCMTLS13 uses a 4 byte static prefix and an 8 byte XOR mask
var emptyNonce = []byte{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
func cipherAESGCMFIPS140(k [32]byte) noise.Cipher {
gcm := aeadAESGCMTLS13(k[:], emptyNonce)
gcm = extractFIPSAEAD(gcm)
return &aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher{
AEAD: gcm,
}
}
type aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher struct {
cipher.AEAD
ready bool
}
// Extract the internal FIPS GCM implementation from the tls wrapper. The TLS
// wrapper is not thread safe around Open, so instead of locking around it we
// can grab the internal implementation that is thread safe. This is the FIPS
// module implementation: `crypto/internal/fips140/aes/gcm.GCMWithXORCounterNonce`
//
// - https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.26.4/src/crypto/internal/fips140/aes/gcm/gcm_nonces.go#L212-L287
//
// The wrapper is struct `crypto/tls.xorNonceAEAD` , with field `aead`:
//
// - https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.26.4/src/crypto/tls/cipher_suites.go#L482-L487
//
// This can be cleaned up once these FIPS implementations are exposed directly:
//
// - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73110
func extractFIPSAEAD(xorNonceAEAD cipher.AEAD) cipher.AEAD {
r := reflect.ValueOf(xorNonceAEAD)
v := r.Elem().FieldByName("aead")
if !v.IsValid() {
// The internal crypto/tls.xorNonceAEAD struct no longer has an `aead`
// field. This can only happen on a Go version this code was not built
// against; the package init() self-test guards against ever reaching
// this at runtime, so this is a defensive fail-fast.
panic(fmt.Sprintf("noiseutil: could not extract FIPS AEAD from %T on %s: no `aead` field (incompatible Go version)", xorNonceAEAD, runtime.Version()))
}
v2 := reflect.NewAt(v.Type(), unsafe.Pointer(v.UnsafeAddr())).Elem()
aead, ok := v2.Interface().(cipher.AEAD)
if !ok {
panic(fmt.Sprintf("noiseutil: extracted FIPS `aead` field is %s, not a cipher.AEAD, on %s (incompatible Go version)", v2.Type(), runtime.Version()))
}
return aead
}
func (c *aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher) init(nonce []byte) {
// GCMWithXORCounterNonce expects that the first call to Seal
// is with a counter of `0`, this is how it extracts the nonce mask.
// We can clean this up in the future when NewGCMWithCounterNonce or
// NewGCMForQUIC are available:
if !bytes.Equal(emptyNonce, nonce) {
c.AEAD.Seal([]byte{}, emptyNonce, []byte{}, []byte{})
}
c.ready = true
}
func (c *aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher) Seal(dst, nonce, plaintext, additionalData []byte) []byte {
if !c.ready {
c.init(nonce)
}
return c.AEAD.Seal(dst, nonce, plaintext, additionalData)
}
func (c *aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher) Encrypt(out []byte, n uint64, ad, plaintext []byte) []byte {
return c.Seal(out, aeadGCMFIPS140CipherNonce(n), plaintext, ad)
}
func (c *aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher) Decrypt(out []byte, n uint64, ad, ciphertext []byte) ([]byte, error) {
return c.Open(out, aeadGCMFIPS140CipherNonce(n), ciphertext, ad)
}
func (c *aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher) EncryptDanger(out, ad, plaintext []byte, n uint64, nb []byte) ([]byte, error) {
if c == nil {
return nil, errors.New("no cipher state available to encrypt")
}
if n >= RejectAfterMessages {
return nil, ErrMessageCounterExhausted
}
binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(nb[4:], n)
out = c.Seal(out, nb, plaintext, ad)
return out, nil
}
func (c *aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher) DecryptDanger(out, ad, ciphertext []byte, n uint64, nb []byte) ([]byte, error) {
if c == nil {
return []byte{}, nil
}
binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(nb[4:], n)
return c.Open(out, nb, ciphertext, ad)
}
func (c *aeadGCMFIPS140Cipher) Overhead() int {
if c == nil {
return 0
}
return c.AEAD.Overhead()
}
func aeadGCMFIPS140CipherNonce(n uint64) []byte {
// GCMWithXORCounterNonce uses a 4 byte static prefix and an 8 byte nonce
var nonce [12]byte
binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(nonce[4:], n)
return nonce[:]
}
func init() {
if boringEnabled || fips140.Enabled() {
initSelfTestAESGCMFIPS140()
}
}
// validates the go:linkname + reflection extraction and the nonce-reuse
// protection at startup. cipherAESGCMFIPS140 relies on unexported
// crypto/tls and crypto/internal/fips140 internals; if a future Go version changes
// those, this fails fast with a clear message instead of panicking per-handshake
// (or, worse, silently losing the strictly-increasing nonce check that is the whole
// point of using this cipher).
func initSelfTestAESGCMFIPS140() {
var key [32]byte
c := cipherAESGCMFIPS140(key)
// Verify the extracted AEAD produces a working encrypt/decrypt roundtrip.
plaintext := []byte("nebula fips140 self-test")
ad := []byte("ad")
ct := c.Encrypt(nil, 1, ad, plaintext)
pt, err := c.Decrypt(nil, 1, ad, ct)
if err != nil {
panic(fmt.Sprintf("noiseutil: FIPS AES-GCM self-test roundtrip failed on %s: %v", runtime.Version(), err))
}
if !bytes.Equal(pt, plaintext) {
panic(fmt.Sprintf("noiseutil: FIPS AES-GCM self-test roundtrip returned wrong plaintext on %s", runtime.Version()))
}
// Verify the nonce-reuse protection still fires: re-encrypting with the same
// counter must panic. This is the defensive check that FIPS-140 requires, so
// if the extraction ever silently yields an AEAD without it, refuse to start.
if !reusePanics(c) {
panic(fmt.Sprintf("noiseutil: FIPS AES-GCM self-test did not reject a reused nonce on %s; nonce-reuse protection is missing (incompatible Go version)", runtime.Version()))
}
}
// reusePanics reports whether re-encrypting with an already-used counter panics,
// as GCMWithXORCounterNonce is expected to.
func reusePanics(c noise.Cipher) (panicked bool) {
c.Encrypt(nil, 2, nil, nil)
defer func() {
if recover() != nil {
panicked = true
}
}()
c.Encrypt(nil, 2, nil, nil)
return false
}