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Potential for signature integrity compromise in Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) Cryptography Domain
| Intel ID: | INTEL-SA-00033 |
|---|---|
| Product family: | The cryptography (CP) domain in Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) |
| Impact of vulnerability: | Information Disclosure |
| Severity rating: | Moderate |
| Original release: | Sep 11, 2012 |
| Last revised: | Sep 11, 2012 |
Summary:
The cryptography (CP) domain in Intel’s newest version of Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) v7.1 has been enhanced to improve its security and customers are strongly urged to update to this release.
Description:
Intel IPP v7.1 introduces Intel® AVX & Intel® AVX2 performance optimizations for faster floating-point and integer operations in the signal processing and image processing domains. Additional Improvements have been made to the CP domain including AES key expansion, RSA-based signature generation and ECC prime field point multiplication. Customers can get these security improvements by linking with v7.1 of Intel® IPP. For additional information on performance impact to RSA and ECC functions, please see the Recommendations below.
Affected products:
The cryptography (CP) domain in Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) versions prior to 7.1.
Recommendations:
Customers are strongly urged to update to version 7.1 which can be obtained from this URL: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-ipp-cryptography-libraries/
To mitigate the potential reduction in performance, some source code changes are recommended for RSA functions. The following RSA functions can be can be initialized two different ways:
- private key pair:
- ippsRSASetKey(pD, ippRSAkeyD, pRSA)
- ippsRSASetKey(pN, ippRSAkeyN, pRSA)
- private key quintuple:
- ippsRSASetKey(pP, ippRSAkeyP, pRSA)
- ippsRSASetKey(pQ, ippRSAkeyQ, pRSA)
- ippsRSASetKey(pdP, ippRSAkeyDpP, pRSA)
- ippsRSASetKey(pdQ, ippRSAkeyDq, pRSA)
- ippsRSASetKey(pQinv, ippRSAkeyQinv, pRSA)
If a private key quintuple is used, code changes should be made to additionally provide the private exponent by the calling ippsRSASetKey(pE, ippRSAkeyE, pRSA) function to avoid a 3-4x performance penalty to RSA Sign operations.
Finally for ECC functions some performance degradation, perhaps up to 10%, may be expected for the functions:
- ippsECCPMulPointScalar()
- ippsECCPGenKeyPair()
- ippsECCPPublicKey()
- ippsECCPValidateKeyPair()
- ippsECCPSharedSecretDH()
- ippsECCPSharedSecretDHC()
At this time there is no known mitigation for this performance impact in ECC.
Related Information:
Optimization Notice Notice revision #20110804
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