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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
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) test
16vectors.
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 and must
21successfully complete the cryptographic algorithm validation process.
22
23Limitations
24-----------
25
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
30  example::
31
32      # VARIABLE KEY - KAT for CBC / # TDES VARIABLE KEY - KAT for CBC
33
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.
41
42* Supported test vectors
43    * AES-CBC (128,192,256) - GFSbox, KeySbox, MCT, MMT
44    * HMAC (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
45    * TDES-CBC (1 Key, 2 Keys, 3 Keys) - MMT, Monte, Permop, Subkey, Varkey,
46      VarText
47
48Application Information
49-----------------------
50
51If a ``.req`` is used as the input file after the application is finished
52running it will generate a response file or ``.rsp``. Differences between the
53two files are, the ``.req`` file has missing information for instance if doing
54encryption you will not have the cipher text and that will be generated in the
55response file. Also if doing decryption it will not have the plain text until it
56finished the work and in the response file it will be added onto the end of each
57operation.
58
59The application can be run with a ``.rsp`` file and what the outcome of that
60will be is it will add a extra line in the generated ``.rsp`` which should be
61the same as the ``.rsp`` used to run the application, this is useful for
62validating if the application has done the operation correctly.
63
64
65Compiling the Application
66-------------------------
67
68* Compile Application
69
70    .. code-block:: console
71
72         make -C examples/fips_validation
73
74*  Run ``dos2unix`` on the request files
75
76    .. code-block:: console
77
78         dos2unix AES/req/*
79         dos2unix AES_GCM/req/*
80         dos2unix CCM/req/*
81         dos2unix CMAC/req/*
82         dos2unix HMAC/req/*
83         dos2unix TDES/req/*
84
85Running the Application
86-----------------------
87
88The application requires a number of command line options:
89
90    .. code-block:: console
91
92         ./fips_validation [EAL options]
93         -- --req-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
94         --rsp-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
95         [--cryptodev DEVICE_NAME] [--cryptodev-id ID] [--path-is-folder]
96
97where,
98  * req-file: The path of the request file or folder, separated by
99    ``path-is-folder`` option.
100
101  * rsp-file: The path that the response file or folder is stored. separated by
102    ``path-is-folder`` option.
103
104  * cryptodev: The name of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
105
106  * cryptodev-id: The id of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
107
108  * path-is-folder: If presented the application expects req-file and rsp-file
109    are folder paths.
110
111
112To run the application in linuxapp environment to test one AES FIPS test data
113file for crypto_aesni_mb PMD, issue the command:
114
115.. code-block:: console
116
117    $ ./fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_mb --
118    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE.req --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE.rsp
119    --cryptodev crypto_aesni_mb
120
121To run the application in linuxapp environment to test all AES-GCM FIPS test
122data files in one folder for crypto_aesni_gcm PMD, issue the command:
123
124.. code-block:: console
125
126    $ ./fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_gcm0 --
127    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE/FOLDER/
128    --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE/FOLDER/
129    --cryptodev-id 0 --path-is-folder
130