Ola,

On 6/25/18 7:40 AM, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
Aloha!

On 25 Jun 2018, at 14:26, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Is that specific to the NIST wrap mechanism or an issue with the HW in
general?  For PKCS #15 it's just AES-CBC with an HMAC around it, so presumably
a single operation, or at least one for AES over a block of memory and a
second for the HMAC over the same block.


It is mainly specific to the keywrap mechanism in RFC 3394. See 2.2.1:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3394#section-2.2.1

Basically it divides a given message M into n 64-bit blocks. Each block is encrypted 6 times with AES (the 64-bit block is combined with an evolved 64-bit state A). With the architecture we have this means that each 64-bit block moves back and forth between the MCU and the FPGA 12 times. Just moving all of M to the FPGA and instead process it there before moving the resulting C back should make quite a difference.

  The key wrapping technique from RFC 5297 (section 4) is much more efficient, and unlike
RFC 3394, it has a security proof around it.

  regards,

  Dan.



Regards,
JoachimS
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