[openssl] openssl-3.0 update

Dr. Paul Dale pauli at openssl.org
Mon Jan 31 00:46:59 UTC 2022


The branch openssl-3.0 has been updated
       via  1f7c5c56c7365fefd9cff9bea4d3d27346ca44d1 (commit)
      from  cb7e50ba3f250a9c9978a964e98a8c8940833595 (commit)


- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
commit 1f7c5c56c7365fefd9cff9bea4d3d27346ca44d1
Author: Pauli <pauli at openssl.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 27 15:05:48 2022 +1100

    aes: make the no-asm constant time code path not the default
    
    After OMC and OTC discussions, the 95% performance loss resulting from
    the constant time code was deemed excessive for something outside of
    our security policy.
    
    The option to use the constant time code exists as it was in OpenSSL 1.1.1.
    
    Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org>
    (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17600)

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Summary of changes:
 CHANGES.md            | 7 +++++++
 crypto/aes/aes_core.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 50002e0af6..a7980daaeb 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions.
 
 ### Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+ * Made the AES constant time code for no-asm configurations
+   optional due to the resulting 95% performance degradation.
+   The AES constant time code can be enabled, for no assembly
+   builds, with: ./config no-asm -DOPENSSL_AES_CONST_TIME
+
+   *Paul Dale*
+
  * Fixed PEM_write_bio_PKCS8PrivateKey() to make it possible to use empty
    passphrase strings.
 
diff --git a/crypto/aes/aes_core.c b/crypto/aes/aes_core.c
index 7b9989fd47..d3eaab349f 100644
--- a/crypto/aes/aes_core.c
+++ b/crypto/aes/aes_core.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 #include <openssl/aes.h>
 #include "aes_local.h"
 
-#if !defined(OPENSSL_NO_AES_CONST_TIME) && !defined(AES_ASM)
+#if defined(OPENSSL_AES_CONST_TIME) && !defined(AES_ASM)
 
 # if (defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN64)) && !defined(__MINGW32__)
 #  define U64(C) C##UI64


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