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This is about a timing leak in the topmost limb
of the internal result of RSA_private_decrypt,
before the padding check.
There are in fact at least three bugs together that
caused the timing leak:
First and probably most important is the fact that
the blinding did not use the constant time code path
at all when the RSA object was used for a private
decrypt, due to the fact that the Montgomery context
rsa->_method_mod_n was not set up early enough in
rsa_ossl_private_decrypt, when BN_BLINDING_create_param
needed it, and that was persisted as blinding->m_ctx,
although the RSA object creates the Montgomery context
just a bit later.
Then the infamous bn_correct_top was used on the
secret value right after the blinding was removed.
And finally the function BN_bn2binpad did not use
the constant-time code path since the BN_FLG_CONSTTIME
was not set on the secret value.
In order to address the first problem, this patch
makes sure that the rsa->_method_mod_n is initialized
right before the blinding context.
And to fix the second problem, we add a new utility
function bn_correct_top_consttime, a const-time
variant of bn_correct_top.
Together with the fact, that BN_bn2binpad is already
constant time if the flag BN_FLG_CONSTTIME is set,
this should eliminate the timing oracle completely.
In addition the no-asm variant may also have
branches that depend on secret values, because the last
invocation of bn_sub_words in bn_from_montgomery_word
had branches when the function is compiled by certain
gcc compiler versions, due to the clumsy coding style.
So additionally this patch stream-lined the no-asm
C-code in order to avoid branches where possible and
improve the resulting code quality.
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