ring/crypto/mem.c
Brian Smith b76f52c03a Remove OPENSSL_cleanse, BN_clear_free, etc.
Ultimately, it's better to invest effort in alternative forms of
protection of key material.

Calling `OPENSSL_cleanse` with a NULL pointer is not safe, but
`OPENSSL_cleanse` is often called in cleanup code, especially error-
handling code, where it is difficult to keep track of the NULLness of
things. The likelihood of getting this wrong is compounded by the fact
that, in OpenSSL upstream, calling `OPENSSL_cleanse(NULL, x)` for any
`x` is safe (a no-op). BoringSSL upstream doesn't want to change its
`OPENSSL_cleanse` to work like OpenSSL's. We don't want to worry about
the issue.

Apart from that, by inspection, it is clear that there are many places
in the code that don't call `OPENSSL_clease` where they "should". It
would be difficult to find all the places where a call to
`OPENSSL_clease` "should" be inserted. It is unlikely we'll ever get it
right. Actually, it's basically impossible to get it right using this
coding pattern. See
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-06-zeroing-buffers-is-insufficient.html
and https://github.com/bitcoin/secp256k1/issues/185.

Besides all that, the zeroization isn't free. Especially in the case of
non-MSVC platforms, it either interferes with the optimizer or it
doesn't work. More importantly, thinking about how to make this
approach work wastes a lot of time that could be spent actually
improving the fundementals of the security of the code.
2016-02-04 22:24:38 -10:00

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/* Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
* All rights reserved.
*
* This package is an SSL implementation written
* by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
* The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL.
*
* This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as
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* apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA,
* lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation
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*
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#include <openssl/mem.h>
int CRYPTO_memcmp(const void *in_a, const void *in_b, size_t len) {
size_t i;
const uint8_t *a = in_a;
const uint8_t *b = in_b;
uint8_t x = 0;
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
x |= a[i] ^ b[i];
}
return x;
}