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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)
68    * SHA (1, 256, 384, 512) - AFT, MCT
69    * TDES-CBC - AFT, MCT
70    * TDES-ECB - AFT, MCT
71    * RSA
72    * ECDSA
73
74
75Application Information
76-----------------------
77
78If a ``.req`` is used as the input file after the application is finished
79running it will generate a response file or ``.rsp``. Differences between the
80two files are, the ``.req`` file has missing information for instance if doing
81encryption you will not have the cipher text and that will be generated in the
82response file. Also if doing decryption it will not have the plain text until it
83finished the work and in the response file it will be added onto the end of each
84operation.
85
86The application can be run with a ``.rsp`` file and what the outcome of that
87will be is it will add a extra line in the generated ``.rsp`` which should be
88the same as the ``.rsp`` used to run the application, this is useful for
89validating if the application has done the operation correctly.
90
91
92Compiling the Application
93-------------------------
94
95* Compile Application
96
97    To compile the sample application see :doc:`compiling`.
98
99*  Run ``dos2unix`` on the request files
100
101    .. code-block:: console
102
103         dos2unix AES/req/*
104         dos2unix GCM/req/*
105         dos2unix CCM/req/*
106         dos2unix CMAC/req/*
107         dos2unix HMAC/req/*
108         dos2unix TDES/req/*
109         dos2unix SHA/req/*
110
111Running the Application
112-----------------------
113
114The application requires a number of command line options:
115
116    .. code-block:: console
117
118         ./dpdk-fips_validation [EAL options]
119         -- --req-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
120         --rsp-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
121         [--cryptodev DEVICE_NAME] [--cryptodev-id ID] [--path-is-folder]
122         --mbuf-dataroom DATAROOM_SIZE
123
124where,
125  * req-file: The path of the request file or folder, separated by
126    ``path-is-folder`` option.
127
128  * rsp-file: The path that the response file or folder is stored. separated by
129    ``path-is-folder`` option.
130
131  * cryptodev: The name of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
132
133  * cryptodev-id: The id of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
134
135  * path-is-folder: If presented the application expects req-file and rsp-file
136    are folder paths.
137
138  * mbuf-dataroom: By default the application creates mbuf pool with maximum
139    possible data room (65535 bytes). If the user wants to test scatter-gather
140    list feature of the PMD he or she may set this value to reduce the dataroom
141    size so that the input data may be divided into multiple chained mbufs.
142
143
144To run the application in linux environment to test one AES FIPS test data
145file for crypto_aesni_mb PMD, issue the command:
146
147.. code-block:: console
148
149    $ ./dpdk-fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_mb --
150    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE.req --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE.rsp
151    --cryptodev crypto_aesni_mb
152
153To run the application in linux environment to test all AES-GCM FIPS test
154data files in one folder for crypto_aesni_gcm PMD, issue the command:
155
156.. code-block:: console
157
158    $ ./dpdk-fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_gcm0 --
159    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE/FOLDER/
160    --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE/FOLDER/
161    --cryptodev-id 0 --path-is-folder
162