rust_sodium 0.10.2

Fast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium)
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//! Constant-time comparison of fixed-size vecs

use crate::ffi;

/// `verify_16()` returns `true` if `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[15]` are the
/// same as `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[15]`. Otherwise it returns `false`.
///
/// This function is safe to use for secrets `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[15]`,
/// `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[15]`. The time taken by `verify_16` is independent
/// of the contents of `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[15]`, `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[15]`.
/// In contrast, the standard C comparison function `memcmp(x,y,16)` takes time
/// that depends on the longest matching prefix of `x` and `y`, often allowing easy
/// timing attacks.
pub fn verify_16(x: &[u8; 16], y: &[u8; 16]) -> bool {
    unsafe { ffi::crypto_verify_16(x as *const u8, y as *const u8) == 0 }
}

/// `verify_32()` returns true if `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[31]` are the
/// same as `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[31]`. Otherwise it returns `false`.
///
/// This function is safe to use for secrets `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[31]`,
/// `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[31]`. The time taken by `verify_32` is independent
/// of the contents of `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[31]`, `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[31]`.
/// In contrast, the standard C comparison function `memcmp(x,y,32)` takes time
/// that depends on the longest matching prefix of `x` and `y`, often allowing easy
/// timing attacks.
pub fn verify_32(x: &[u8; 32], y: &[u8; 32]) -> bool {
    unsafe { ffi::crypto_verify_32(x as *const u8, y as *const u8) == 0 }
}

/// `verify_64()` returns true if `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[63]` are the
/// same as `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[63]`. Otherwise it returns `false`.
///
/// This function is safe to use for secrets `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[63]`,
/// `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[63]`. The time taken by `verify_64` is independent
/// of the contents of `x[0]`, `x[1]`, ..., `x[63]`, `y[0]`, `y[1]`, ..., `y[63]`.
/// In contrast, the standard C comparison function `memcmp(x,y,64)` takes time
/// that depends on the longest matching prefix of `x` and `y`, often allowing easy
/// timing attacks.
pub fn verify_64(x: &[u8; 64], y: &[u8; 64]) -> bool {
    unsafe { ffi::crypto_verify_64(x as *const u8, y as *const u8) == 0 }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn test_verify_16() {
        use crate::randombytes::randombytes_into;

        unwrap!(crate::init());
        for _ in 0usize..256 {
            let mut x = [0; 16];
            let mut y = [0; 16];
            assert!(verify_16(&x, &y));
            randombytes_into(&mut x);
            randombytes_into(&mut y);
            if x == y {
                assert!(verify_16(&x, &y))
            } else {
                assert!(!verify_16(&x, &y))
            }
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_verify_32() {
        use crate::randombytes::randombytes_into;

        unwrap!(crate::init());
        for _ in 0usize..256 {
            let mut x = [0; 32];
            let mut y = [0; 32];
            assert!(verify_32(&x, &y));
            randombytes_into(&mut x);
            randombytes_into(&mut y);
            if x == y {
                assert!(verify_32(&x, &y))
            } else {
                assert!(!verify_32(&x, &y))
            }
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_verify_64() {
        use crate::randombytes::randombytes_into;

        unwrap!(crate::init());
        for _ in 0usize..256 {
            let mut x = [0; 64];
            let mut y = [0; 64];
            assert!(verify_64(&x, &y));
            randombytes_into(&mut x);
            randombytes_into(&mut y);
            if x[..] == y[..] {
                assert!(verify_64(&x, &y))
            } else {
                assert!(!verify_64(&x, &y))
            }
        }
    }
}