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3
4Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) CryptoDev Validation
5====================================================================
6
7Overview
8--------
9
10Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards
11developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by
12non-military government agencies and government contractors.
13
14This application is used to parse and perform symmetric cryptography
15computation to the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) and
16Automated Crypto Validation Protocol (ACVP) test vectors.
17
18For an algorithm implementation to be listed on a cryptographic module
19validation certificate as an Approved security function, the algorithm
20implementation must meet all the requirements of FIPS 140-2 (in case of CAVP)
21and FIPS 140-3 (in case of ACVP) and must successfully complete the
22cryptographic algorithm validation process.
23
24Limitations
25-----------
26
27CAVP
28----
29
30* The version of request file supported is ``CAVS 21.0``.
31* If the header comment in a ``.req`` file does not contain a Algo tag
32  i.e ``AES,TDES,GCM`` you need to manually add it into the header comment for
33  example::
34
35      # VARIABLE KEY - KAT for CBC / # TDES VARIABLE KEY - KAT for CBC
36
37* The application does not supply the test vectors. The user is expected to
38  obtain the test vector files from `CAVP
39  <https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-algorithm-validation-
40  program/block-ciphers>`_ website. To obtain the ``.req`` files you need to
41  email a person from the NIST website and pay for the ``.req`` files.
42  The ``.rsp`` files from the site can be used to validate and compare with
43  the ``.rsp`` files created by the FIPS application.
44
45* Supported test vectors
46    * AES-CBC (128,192,256) - GFSbox, KeySbox, MCT, MMT
47    * AES-GCM (128,192,256) - EncryptExtIV, Decrypt
48    * AES-CCM (128) - VADT, VNT, VPT, VTT, DVPT
49    * AES-CMAC (128) - Generate, Verify
50    * HMAC (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
51    * TDES-CBC (1 Key, 2 Keys, 3 Keys) - MMT, Monte, Permop, Subkey, Varkey,
52      VarText
53
54ACVP
55----
56
57* The application does not supply the test vectors. The user is expected to
58  obtain the test vector files from `ACVP  <https://pages.nist.gov/ACVP>`_
59  website.
60* Supported test vectors
61    * AES-CBC (128,192,256) - AFT, MCT
62    * AES-GCM (128,192,256) - AFT
63    * AES-CMAC (128,192,256) - AFT
64    * AES-CTR (128,192,256) - AFT, CTR
65    * AES-GMAC (128,192,256) - AFT
66    * AES-XTS (128,256) - AFT
67    * HMAC (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA3_224, SHA3_256, SHA3_384, SHA3_512)
68    * SHA (1, 224, 256, 384, 512) - AFT, MCT
69    * SHA3 (224, 256, 384, 512) - AFT, MCT
70    * SHAKE (128, 256) - AFT, MCT, VOT
71    * TDES-CBC - AFT, MCT
72    * TDES-ECB - AFT, MCT
73    * RSA
74    * ECDSA
75
76
77Application Information
78-----------------------
79
80If a ``.req`` is used as the input file after the application is finished
81running it will generate a response file or ``.rsp``. Differences between the
82two files are, the ``.req`` file has missing information for instance if doing
83encryption you will not have the cipher text and that will be generated in the
84response file. Also if doing decryption it will not have the plain text until it
85finished the work and in the response file it will be added onto the end of each
86operation.
87
88The application can be run with a ``.rsp`` file and what the outcome of that
89will be is it will add a extra line in the generated ``.rsp`` which should be
90the same as the ``.rsp`` used to run the application, this is useful for
91validating if the application has done the operation correctly.
92
93
94Compiling the Application
95-------------------------
96
97* Compile Application
98
99    To compile the sample application see :doc:`compiling`.
100
101*  Run ``dos2unix`` on the request files
102
103    .. code-block:: console
104
105         dos2unix AES/req/*
106         dos2unix GCM/req/*
107         dos2unix CCM/req/*
108         dos2unix CMAC/req/*
109         dos2unix HMAC/req/*
110         dos2unix TDES/req/*
111         dos2unix SHA/req/*
112
113Running the Application
114-----------------------
115
116The application requires a number of command line options:
117
118    .. code-block:: console
119
120         ./dpdk-fips_validation [EAL options]
121         -- --req-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
122         --rsp-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
123         [--cryptodev DEVICE_NAME] [--cryptodev-id ID] [--path-is-folder]
124         --mbuf-dataroom DATAROOM_SIZE
125
126where,
127  * req-file: The path of the request file or folder, separated by
128    ``path-is-folder`` option.
129
130  * rsp-file: The path that the response file or folder is stored. separated by
131    ``path-is-folder`` option.
132
133  * cryptodev: The name of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
134
135  * cryptodev-id: The id of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
136
137  * path-is-folder: If presented the application expects req-file and rsp-file
138    are folder paths.
139
140  * mbuf-dataroom: By default the application creates mbuf pool with maximum
141    possible data room (65535 bytes). If the user wants to test scatter-gather
142    list feature of the PMD he or she may set this value to reduce the dataroom
143    size so that the input data may be divided into multiple chained mbufs.
144
145
146To run the application in linux environment to test one AES FIPS test data
147file for crypto_aesni_mb PMD, issue the command:
148
149.. code-block:: console
150
151    $ ./dpdk-fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_mb --
152    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE.req --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE.rsp
153    --cryptodev crypto_aesni_mb
154
155To run the application in linux environment to test all AES-GCM FIPS test
156data files in one folder for crypto_aesni_gcm PMD, issue the command:
157
158.. code-block:: console
159
160    $ ./dpdk-fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_gcm0 --
161    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE/FOLDER/
162    --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE/FOLDER/
163    --cryptodev-id 0 --path-is-folder
164