The DSA code is deprecated and will, hopefully, be removed in the future.
Nonetheless, this is easy enough to fix. It's the analog of the work we'd
already done for ECDSA.
- Document more clearly that we don't care about the DSA code.
- Use the existing constant-time modular addition function rather than
the ad-hoc code.
- Reduce the digest to satisfy modular operations' invariants. (The
underlying algorithms could accept looser bounds, but we reduce for
simplicity.) There's no particular reason to do this in constant time,
but we have the code for it, so we may as well.
- This additionally adds a missing check that num_bits(q) is a multiple
of 8. We otherwise don't compute the right answer. Verification
already rejected all 160-, 224-, and 256-bit keys, and we only
generate DSA parameters where the length of q matches some hash
function's length, so this is unlikely to cause anyone trouble.
- Use Montgomery reduction to perform the modular multiplication. This
could be optimized to save a couple Montgomery reductions as in ECDSA,
but DSA is deprecated, so I haven't bothered optimizing this.
- The reduction from g^k (mod p) to r = g^k (mod p) (mod q) is left
in variable time, but reversing it would require a discrete log
anyway. (The corresponding ECDSA operation is much easier to make
constant-time due to Hasse's theorem, though that's actually still a
TODO. I need to finish lifting EC_FELEM up the stack.)
Thanks to Keegan Ryan from NCC Group for reporting the modular addition issue
(CVE-2018-0495). The remainder is stuff I noticed along the way.
Update-Note: See the num_bits(q) change.
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