1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2 Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
4 Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) CryptoDev Validation
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10 Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards
11 developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by
12 non-military government agencies and government contractors.
14 This application is used to parse and perform symmetric cryptography
15 computation to the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) test
18 For an algorithm implementation to be listed on a cryptographic module
19 validation certificate as an Approved security function, the algorithm
20 implementation must meet all the requirements of FIPS 140-2 and must
21 successfully complete the cryptographic algorithm validation process.
26 * Only NIST CAVP request files are parsed by this application.
27 * The version of request file supported is ``CAVS 21.0``
28 * If the header comment in a ``.req`` file does not contain a Algo tag
29 i.e ``AES,TDES,GCM`` you need to manually add it into the header comment for
32 # VARIABLE KEY - KAT for CBC / # TDES VARIABLE KEY - KAT for CBC
34 * The application does not supply the test vectors. The user is expected to
35 obtain the test vector files from `NIST
36 <https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-algorithm-validation-
37 program/block-ciphers>`_ website. To obtain the ``.req`` files you need to
38 email a person from the NIST website and pay for the ``.req`` files.
39 The ``.rsp`` files from the site can be used to validate and compare with
40 the ``.rsp`` files created by the FIPS application.
42 * Supported test vectors
43 * AES-CBC (128,192,256) - GFSbox, KeySbox, MCT, MMT
44 * AES-GCM (128,192,256) - EncryptExtIV, Decrypt
45 * AES-CCM (128) - VADT, VNT, VPT, VTT, DVPT
46 * AES-CMAC (128) - Generate, Verify
47 * HMAC (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
48 * TDES-CBC (1 Key, 2 Keys, 3 Keys) - MMT, Monte, Permop, Subkey, Varkey,
51 Application Information
52 -----------------------
54 If a ``.req`` is used as the input file after the application is finished
55 running it will generate a response file or ``.rsp``. Differences between the
56 two files are, the ``.req`` file has missing information for instance if doing
57 encryption you will not have the cipher text and that will be generated in the
58 response file. Also if doing decryption it will not have the plain text until it
59 finished the work and in the response file it will be added onto the end of each
62 The application can be run with a ``.rsp`` file and what the outcome of that
63 will be is it will add a extra line in the generated ``.rsp`` which should be
64 the same as the ``.rsp`` used to run the application, this is useful for
65 validating if the application has done the operation correctly.
68 Compiling the Application
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73 .. code-block:: console
75 make -C examples/fips_validation
77 * Run ``dos2unix`` on the request files
79 .. code-block:: console
82 dos2unix AES_GCM/req/*
88 Running the Application
89 -----------------------
91 The application requires a number of command line options:
93 .. code-block:: console
95 ./fips_validation [EAL options]
96 -- --req-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
97 --rsp-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
98 [--cryptodev DEVICE_NAME] [--cryptodev-id ID] [--path-is-folder]
101 * req-file: The path of the request file or folder, separated by
102 ``path-is-folder`` option.
104 * rsp-file: The path that the response file or folder is stored. separated by
105 ``path-is-folder`` option.
107 * cryptodev: The name of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
109 * cryptodev-id: The id of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
111 * path-is-folder: If presented the application expects req-file and rsp-file
115 To run the application in linux environment to test one AES FIPS test data
116 file for crypto_aesni_mb PMD, issue the command:
118 .. code-block:: console
120 $ ./fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_mb --
121 --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE.req --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE.rsp
122 --cryptodev crypto_aesni_mb
124 To run the application in linux environment to test all AES-GCM FIPS test
125 data files in one folder for crypto_aesni_gcm PMD, issue the command:
127 .. code-block:: console
129 $ ./fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_gcm0 --
130 --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE/FOLDER/
131 --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE/FOLDER/
132 --cryptodev-id 0 --path-is-folder