phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Security concern for Catena

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:54:33 -0500
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Security concern for Catena

I don't think my attack works with Catena 2, does it?  I hope not, because
I just switched NoelKDF to use something very similar to Catena 2 to
eliminate timing attacks.  If Catena 2 has a weakness, I would appreciate
hearing about it.

I also implemented Alexander's idea for having more even memory access
distribution, picking a random-ish previous page to hash that is within the
largest power of 2 less than the current page being generated, along with
his idea about user-selectable parallelism.

I don't understand why, and I am concerned I wont like the answer when I
do, but NoelKDF now runs even faster, when it really should be slower.  I
cherry picked this run out of about 10... most take more like .22 seconds.
 I couldn't help showing the best one:

noelkdf> !time
time ./memorycpy
0

real    0m0.188s
user    0m0.140s
sys     0m0.220s
noelkdf> !.
./run_noelkdf
BC60430CD122BD2E6CA644F909AE6860E0C7B2AACCB9ED7A570711BD65D48C03

real    0m0.197s
user    0m0.360s
sys     0m0.200s

The first run is memmove, moving 2GB right by 8 bytes, using 2 threads.
 The second run is NoelKDF hashing 2GB of data with Catena inspired
random-ish previous page selection that does not depend on the password,
running with 3 threads.  This run is about 20% away from my memory
bandwidth limit.  It doesn't run this fast for some reason on most
processors, including my Core i7 dual-core laptop, where it takes .62s with
2 threads.  On my work's AMD FX 8 processor it's taking from .4 to .5
seconds with 8 threads, and 1.5 seconds on one thread.

With Catena's client/server splitting of hashing responsibility, you really
could hash a lot more than 8MB.

Bill

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