speculation and memory sidechannel attacks like Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer
and Rambleed. This change encrypts private keys when they are not in use with
a symmetic key that is derived from a relatively large "prekey" consisting of
random data (currently 16KB).
Attackers must recover the entire prekey with high accuracy before
they can attempt to decrypt the shielded private key, but the current
generation of attacks have bit error rates that, when applied
cumulatively to the entire prekey, make this unlikely.
Implementation-wise, keys are encrypted "shielded" when loaded and then
automatically and transparently unshielded when used for signatures or
when being saved/serialised.
Hopefully we can remove this in a few years time when computer
architecture has become less unsafe.
been in snaps for a bit already; thanks deraadt@
ok dtucker@ deraadt@
OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 19767213c312e46f94b303a512ef8e9218a39bd4
[auth.c key.c key.h ssh-keygen.1 ssh-keygen.c sshd_config.5]
[krl.c krl.h PROTOCOL.krl]
add support for Key Revocation Lists (KRLs). These are a compact way to
represent lists of revoked keys and certificates, taking as little as
a single bit of incremental cost to revoke a certificate by serial number.
KRLs are loaded via the existing RevokedKeys sshd_config option.
feedback and ok markus@
djm@openbsd.org
Damien Miller