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crypto/{ed25519,ecdsa,rsa}: PrivateKey.Equal leaks timing information #53849

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rolandshoemaker opened this issue Jul 13, 2022 · 2 comments
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The implementations of PrivateKey.Equal in the crypto/ed25519, crypto/ecdsa, and crypto/rsa packages
leak timing information during key comparison. We do not consider this a serious security issue, as
attacker controlled private key attacks are generally considered out of scope, the Equals methods
are not used during any cryptographic operations, and because these methods were never documented to
be constant-time.

Regardless, we should make these methods constant-time, since it is (mostly) trivial to do, and because
our stance is that the crypto/* libraries should be generally safe to use by default, and hard to
misuse.

Thanks to Zach Collier (@zamicol) for reporting this issue to the Security team.

@rolandshoemaker rolandshoemaker added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Jul 13, 2022
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Change https://go.dev/cl/417396 mentions this issue: crypto: make private key equals methods constant time

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Change https://go.dev/cl/492955 mentions this issue: crypto/ed25519,crypto/rsa: make Equal methods constant time

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