arc4.c

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/*
 * The ARC4 stream cipher.
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2009 Joshua Oreman <oremanj@rwcr.net>.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
 * License, or any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 * 02110-1301, USA.
 */

FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER );

#include <ipxe/crypto.h>
#include <ipxe/arc4.h>

#define SWAP( ary, i, j )       \
        ({ u8 temp = ary[i]; ary[i] = ary[j]; ary[j] = temp; })

/**
 * Set ARC4 key
 *
 * @v ctxv      ARC4 encryption context
 * @v keyv      Key to set
 * @v keylen    Length of key
 *
 * If an initialisation vector is to be used, it should be prepended
 * to the key; ARC4 does not implement the @c setiv function because
 * there is no standard length for an initialisation vector in the
 * cipher.
 */
static int arc4_setkey ( void *ctxv, const void *keyv, size_t keylen )
{
        struct arc4_ctx *ctx = ctxv;
        const u8 *key = keyv;
        u8 *S = ctx->state;
        int i, j;

        for ( i = 0; i < 256; i++ ) {
                S[i] = i;
        }

        for ( i = j = 0; i < 256; i++ ) {
                j = ( j + S[i] + key[i % keylen] ) & 0xff;
                SWAP ( S, i, j );
        }

        ctx->i = ctx->j = 0;
        return 0;
}

/**
 * Perform ARC4 encryption or decryption
 *
 * @v ctxv      ARC4 encryption context
 * @v srcv      Data to encrypt or decrypt
 * @v dstv      Location to store encrypted or decrypted data
 * @v len       Length of data to operate on
 *
 * ARC4 is a stream cipher that works by generating a stream of PRNG
 * data based on the key, and XOR'ing it with the data to be
 * encrypted. Since XOR is symmetric, encryption and decryption in
 * ARC4 are the same operation.
 *
 * If you pass a @c NULL source or destination pointer, @a len
 * keystream bytes will be consumed without encrypting any data.
 */
static void arc4_xor ( void *ctxv, const void *srcv, void *dstv,
                       size_t len )
{
        struct arc4_ctx *ctx = ctxv;
        const u8 *src = srcv;
        u8 *dst = dstv;
        u8 *S = ctx->state;
        int i = ctx->i, j = ctx->j;

        while ( len-- ) {
                i = ( i + 1 ) & 0xff;
                j = ( j + S[i] ) & 0xff;
                SWAP ( S, i, j );
                if ( srcv && dstv )
                        *dst++ = *src++ ^ S[(S[i] + S[j]) & 0xff];
        }

        ctx->i = i;
        ctx->j = j;
}

/**
 * Perform ARC4 encryption or decryption, skipping initial keystream bytes
 *
 * @v key       ARC4 encryption key
 * @v keylen    Key length
 * @v skip      Number of bytes of keystream to skip
 * @v src       Message to encrypt or decrypt
 * @v msglen    Length of message
 * @ret dst     Encrypted or decrypted message
 */
void arc4_skip ( const void *key, size_t keylen, size_t skip,
                 const void *src, void *dst, size_t msglen )
{
        struct arc4_ctx ctx;
        arc4_setkey ( &ctx, key, keylen );
        arc4_xor ( &ctx, NULL, NULL, skip );
        arc4_xor ( &ctx, src, dst, msglen );
}

struct cipher_algorithm arc4_algorithm = {
        .name = "ARC4",
        .ctxsize = ARC4_CTX_SIZE,
        .blocksize = 1,
        .alignsize = 1,
        .authsize = 0,
        .setkey = arc4_setkey,
        .setiv = cipher_null_setiv,
        .encrypt = arc4_xor,
        .decrypt = arc4_xor,
        .auth = cipher_null_auth,
};