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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-GMAC (128,192,256) - AFT
65    * AES-XTS (128,256) - AFT
66    * HMAC (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)
67    * SHA (1, 256, 384, 512) - AFT, MCT
68    * TDES-CBC - AFT, MCT
69    * TDES-ECB - AFT, MCT
70
71
72Application Information
73-----------------------
74
75If a ``.req`` is used as the input file after the application is finished
76running it will generate a response file or ``.rsp``. Differences between the
77two files are, the ``.req`` file has missing information for instance if doing
78encryption you will not have the cipher text and that will be generated in the
79response file. Also if doing decryption it will not have the plain text until it
80finished the work and in the response file it will be added onto the end of each
81operation.
82
83The application can be run with a ``.rsp`` file and what the outcome of that
84will be is it will add a extra line in the generated ``.rsp`` which should be
85the same as the ``.rsp`` used to run the application, this is useful for
86validating if the application has done the operation correctly.
87
88
89Compiling the Application
90-------------------------
91
92* Compile Application
93
94    To compile the sample application see :doc:`compiling`.
95
96*  Run ``dos2unix`` on the request files
97
98    .. code-block:: console
99
100         dos2unix AES/req/*
101         dos2unix GCM/req/*
102         dos2unix CCM/req/*
103         dos2unix CMAC/req/*
104         dos2unix HMAC/req/*
105         dos2unix TDES/req/*
106         dos2unix SHA/req/*
107
108Running the Application
109-----------------------
110
111The application requires a number of command line options:
112
113    .. code-block:: console
114
115         ./dpdk-fips_validation [EAL options]
116         -- --req-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
117         --rsp-file FILE_PATH/FOLDER_PATH
118         [--cryptodev DEVICE_NAME] [--cryptodev-id ID] [--path-is-folder]
119         --mbuf-dataroom DATAROOM_SIZE
120
121where,
122  * req-file: The path of the request file or folder, separated by
123    ``path-is-folder`` option.
124
125  * rsp-file: The path that the response file or folder is stored. separated by
126    ``path-is-folder`` option.
127
128  * cryptodev: The name of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
129
130  * cryptodev-id: The id of the target DPDK Crypto device to be validated.
131
132  * path-is-folder: If presented the application expects req-file and rsp-file
133    are folder paths.
134
135  * mbuf-dataroom: By default the application creates mbuf pool with maximum
136    possible data room (65535 bytes). If the user wants to test scatter-gather
137    list feature of the PMD he or she may set this value to reduce the dataroom
138    size so that the input data may be divided into multiple chained mbufs.
139
140
141To run the application in linux environment to test one AES FIPS test data
142file for crypto_aesni_mb PMD, issue the command:
143
144.. code-block:: console
145
146    $ ./dpdk-fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_mb --
147    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE.req --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE.rsp
148    --cryptodev crypto_aesni_mb
149
150To run the application in linux environment to test all AES-GCM FIPS test
151data files in one folder for crypto_aesni_gcm PMD, issue the command:
152
153.. code-block:: console
154
155    $ ./dpdk-fips_validation --vdev crypto_aesni_gcm0 --
156    --req-file /PATH/TO/REQUEST/FILE/FOLDER/
157    --rsp-file ./PATH/TO/RESPONSE/FILE/FOLDER/
158    --cryptodev-id 0 --path-is-folder
159