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