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/*
** ChaCha20 specification
** Author: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>. Released in the Public Domain.
**
** Based on RFC 7539 - "ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols"
** https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7539
*/
module chacha20 where
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/* -- Implementation -------------------------------------------------------- */
type Round = [16][32] // An input to the ChaCha20 core function
type Block = [64][8] // An output block from the ChaCha20 core function.
type Key = [32][8] // A 32-byte input key
type Nonce = [12][8] // A 12-byte nonce
type Counter = [32] // Starting block counter. Usually 1 or 0.
/* ---------------------------------- */
/* -- Quarter Round ----------------- */
// The quarter round. This takes 4 32-bit integers and diffuses them
// appropriately, and is the core of the column and diagonal round.
qround : [4][32] -> [4][32]
qround [ a0, b0, c0, d0 ] = [ a2, b4, c2, d4 ]
where
a1 = a0 + b0 /* a += b; d ^= a; d <<<= 16 */
d1 = d0 ^ a1
d2 = d1 <<< 16
c1 = c0 + d2 /* c += d; b ^= c; b <<<= 12 */
b1 = b0 ^ c1
b2 = b1 <<< 12
a2 = a1 + b2 /* a += b; d ^= a; d <<<= 8 */
d3 = d2 ^ a2
d4 = d3 <<< 8
c2 = c1 + d4 /* c += d; b ^= c; b <<<= 7 */
b3 = b2 ^ c2
b4 = b3 <<< 7
/* ---------------------------------- */
/* -- Column and diagonal rounds ---- */
// Perform the column round, followed by the diagonal round on the
// input state, which are both defined in terms of the quarter
// round. ChaCha20 requires 20 total rounds of interleaving
// column/diagonal passes on the state, and therefore `cdround` actually
// does two passes at once (mostly for simplicity).
cdround : Round -> Round
cdround [ x0, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x11, x12, x13, x14, x15 ]
= [ z0, z1, z2, z3, z4, z5, z6, z7, z8, z9, z10, z11, z12, z13, z14, z15 ]
where
// Column round
[ y0, y4, y8, y12 ] = qround [ x0, x4, x8, x12 ]
[ y1, y5, y9, y13 ] = qround [ x1, x5, x9, x13 ]
[ y2, y6, y10, y14 ] = qround [ x2, x6, x10, x14 ]
[ y3, y7, y11, y15 ] = qround [ x3, x7, x11, x15 ]
// Diagonal round
[ z0, z5, z10, z15 ] = qround [ y0, y5, y10, y15 ]
[ z1, z6, z11, z12 ] = qround [ y1, y6, y11, y12 ]
[ z2, z7, z8, z13 ] = qround [ y2, y7, y8, y13 ]
[ z3, z4, z9, z14 ] = qround [ y3, y4, y9, y14 ]
/* ---------------------------------- */
/* -- Block encryption -------------- */
// Given an input round, calculate the core ChaCha20 algorithm over
// the round and return an output block. These output blocks form the
// stream which you XOR your plaintext with, and successive iterations of
// the core algorithm result in an infinite stream you can use as a
// cipher.
core : Round -> Block
core x = block
where
rounds = iterate cdround x // Do a bunch of column/diagonal passes...
result = rounds @ 10 // And grab the 10th result (20 total passes)
block = blocked (x + result) // Add to input, convert to output block
/* ---------------------------------- */
/* -- Key Expansion ----------------- */
// Key expansion. Given a nonce and a key, compute a round (which is
// fed to the core algorithm above) by taking the initial round state and
// mixing in the key and nonce appropriately.
kexp : Key -> Counter -> Nonce -> Round
kexp k c n = [ c0, c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6, c7, c8, c9, c10, c11, c12, c13, c14, c15 ]
where
// The following describes the layout of the output round, which
// is fed into the core algorithm successively.
// Bytes 0-3: Constants
[ c0, c1, c2, c3 ] = [ 0x61707865, 0x3320646e, 0x79622d32, 0x6b206574 ]
// Bytes 4-11: Key
[ c4, c5, c6, c7 ] = map rjoin (groupBy`{4} kslice1 : [4][4][8]) : [4][32]
[ c8, c9, c10, c11 ] = map rjoin (groupBy`{4} kslice2 : [4][4][8]) : [4][32]
kslice1 = k @@ ([ 0 .. 15 ] : [16][32]) // Top half
kslice2 = k @@ ([ 16 .. 31 ] : [16][32]) // Bottom half
// Bytes 12: Counter, starts off with whatever the user specified
// (usually 0 or 1)
[ c12 ] = [ c ]
// Bytes 14-15: Nonce
[ c13, c14, c15 ] = map rjoin (groupBy`{4} n)
/* ---------------------------------- */
/* -- Round increments -------------- */
// Take a given number of iterations and the input round (after key
// expansion!), and calculate the input round for the core algorithm
// function. This allows you to index into a particular Round which
// can be passed to the 'core' function.
iround : [64] -> Round -> Round
iround n r = (iterate once r) @ n where
// Given a round, increment the counter inside (index no 12)
once [ x0, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x11, x12, x13, x14, x15 ]
= [ x0, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x11, x12+1, x13, x14, x15 ]
/* ---------------------------------- */
/* -- ChaCha20 encryption ----------- */
// Produce a psuedo-random stream given a nonce and a key, which can
// be XOR'd with your data to encrypt it.
stream : {n} (fin n) => Key -> Counter -> Nonce -> [n][8]
stream k c n = take`{n} (join rounds) // Take n bytes from the final result
where
// Expand key
key = kexp k c n
// Produce the stream by successively incrementing the input round
// by `i`, and running the core algorithm to get the resulting
// stream for the `i`th input. Once these are concatenated, you have
// an infinite list representing the ChaCha20 stream.
rounds = [ core (iround i key) | i <- [ 0, 1 ... ] ]
// Given an message, a nonce, and a key, produce an encrypted
// message. This is simply defined as the XOR of the message and the
// corresponding encryption stream.
encrypt : {n} (fin n) => Key -> Counter -> Nonce -> [n][8] -> [n][8]
encrypt k c n m = m ^ (stream k c n)
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/* -- Theorems, tests ------------------------------------------------------- */
// Tests are private
private
qround01 = qround in == out
where
in = [ 0x11111111, 0x01020304, 0x9b8d6f43, 0x01234567 ]
out = [ 0xea2a92f4, 0xcb1cf8ce, 0x4581472e, 0x5881c4bb ]
core01 = kexp k 1 n == out
where
n = [ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x09, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x4a,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 ]
k = [ 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07,
0x08, 0x09, 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c, 0x0d, 0x0e, 0x0f,
0x10, 0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14, 0x15, 0x16, 0x17,
0x18, 0x19, 0x1a, 0x1b, 0x1c, 0x1d, 0x1e, 0x1f ]
out = [ 0x61707865, 0x3320646e, 0x79622d32, 0x6b206574,
0x03020100, 0x07060504, 0x0b0a0908, 0x0f0e0d0c,
0x13121110, 0x17161514, 0x1b1a1918, 0x1f1e1d1c,
0x00000001, 0x09000000, 0x4a000000, 0x00000000 ]
core02 = core (kexp k 1 n) == out
where
n = [ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x09, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x4a,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 ]
k = [ 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07,
0x08, 0x09, 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c, 0x0d, 0x0e, 0x0f,
0x10, 0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14, 0x15, 0x16, 0x17,
0x18, 0x19, 0x1a, 0x1b, 0x1c, 0x1d, 0x1e, 0x1f ]
out = [ 0x10, 0xf1, 0xe7, 0xe4, 0xd1, 0x3b, 0x59, 0x15,
0x50, 0x0f, 0xdd, 0x1f, 0xa3, 0x20, 0x71, 0xc4,
0xc7, 0xd1, 0xf4, 0xc7, 0x33, 0xc0, 0x68, 0x03,
0x04, 0x22, 0xaa, 0x9a, 0xc3, 0xd4, 0x6c, 0x4e,
0xd2, 0x82, 0x64, 0x46, 0x07, 0x9f, 0xaa, 0x09,
0x14, 0xc2, 0xd7, 0x05, 0xd9, 0x8b, 0x02, 0xa2,
0xb5, 0x12, 0x9c, 0xd1, 0xde, 0x16, 0x4e, 0xb9,
0xcb, 0xd0, 0x83, 0xe8, 0xa2, 0x50, 0x3c, 0x4e ]
rfctest01 = encrypt zero zero zero zero
== [ 0x76, 0xb8, 0xe0, 0xad, 0xa0, 0xf1, 0x3d, 0x90, 0x40, 0x5d,
0x6a, 0xe5, 0x53, 0x86, 0xbd, 0x28, 0xbd, 0xd2, 0x19, 0xb8,
0xa0, 0x8d, 0xed, 0x1a, 0xa8, 0x36, 0xef, 0xcc, 0x8b, 0x77,
0x0d, 0xc7, 0xda, 0x41, 0x59, 0x7c, 0x51, 0x57, 0x48, 0x8d,
0x77, 0x24, 0xe0, 0x3f, 0xb8, 0xd8, 0x4a, 0x37, 0x6a, 0x43,
0xb8, 0xf4, 0x15, 0x18, 0xa1, 0x1c, 0xc3, 0x87, 0xb6, 0x69,
0xb2, 0xee, 0x65, 0x86 ]
rfctest02 = encrypt (zero # [1]) 1 (zero # [2]) msg == out
where
out = [ 0xa3, 0xfb, 0xf0, 0x7d, 0xf3, 0xfa, 0x2f, 0xde, 0x4f, 0x37,
0x6c, 0xa2, 0x3e, 0x82, 0x73, 0x70, 0x41, 0x60, 0x5d, 0x9f,
0x4f, 0x4f, 0x57, 0xbd, 0x8c, 0xff, 0x2c, 0x1d, 0x4b, 0x79,
0x55, 0xec, 0x2a, 0x97, 0x94, 0x8b, 0xd3, 0x72, 0x29, 0x15,
0xc8, 0xf3, 0xd3, 0x37, 0xf7, 0xd3, 0x70, 0x05, 0x0e, 0x9e,
0x96, 0xd6, 0x47, 0xb7, 0xc3, 0x9f, 0x56, 0xe0, 0x31, 0xca,
0x5e, 0xb6, 0x25, 0x0d, 0x40, 0x42, 0xe0, 0x27, 0x85, 0xec,
0xec, 0xfa, 0x4b, 0x4b, 0xb5, 0xe8, 0xea, 0xd0, 0x44, 0x0e,
0x20, 0xb6, 0xe8, 0xdb, 0x09, 0xd8, 0x81, 0xa7, 0xc6, 0x13,
0x2f, 0x42, 0x0e, 0x52, 0x79, 0x50, 0x42, 0xbd, 0xfa, 0x77,
0x73, 0xd8, 0xa9, 0x05, 0x14, 0x47, 0xb3, 0x29, 0x1c, 0xe1,
0x41, 0x1c, 0x68, 0x04, 0x65, 0x55, 0x2a, 0xa6, 0xc4, 0x05,
0xb7, 0x76, 0x4d, 0x5e, 0x87, 0xbe, 0xa8, 0x5a, 0xd0, 0x0f,
0x84, 0x49, 0xed, 0x8f, 0x72, 0xd0, 0xd6, 0x62, 0xab, 0x05,
0x26, 0x91, 0xca, 0x66, 0x42, 0x4b, 0xc8, 0x6d, 0x2d, 0xf8,
0x0e, 0xa4, 0x1f, 0x43, 0xab, 0xf9, 0x37, 0xd3, 0x25, 0x9d,
0xc4, 0xb2, 0xd0, 0xdf, 0xb4, 0x8a, 0x6c, 0x91, 0x39, 0xdd,
0xd7, 0xf7, 0x69, 0x66, 0xe9, 0x28, 0xe6, 0x35, 0x55, 0x3b,
0xa7, 0x6c, 0x5c, 0x87, 0x9d, 0x7b, 0x35, 0xd4, 0x9e, 0xb2,
0xe6, 0x2b, 0x08, 0x71, 0xcd, 0xac, 0x63, 0x89, 0x39, 0xe2,
0x5e, 0x8a, 0x1e, 0x0e, 0xf9, 0xd5, 0x28, 0x0f, 0xa8, 0xca,
0x32, 0x8b, 0x35, 0x1c, 0x3c, 0x76, 0x59, 0x89, 0xcb, 0xcf,
0x3d, 0xaa, 0x8b, 0x6c, 0xcc, 0x3a, 0xaf, 0x9f, 0x39, 0x79,
0xc9, 0x2b, 0x37, 0x20, 0xfc, 0x88, 0xdc, 0x95, 0xed, 0x84,
0xa1, 0xbe, 0x05, 0x9c, 0x64, 0x99, 0xb9, 0xfd, 0xa2, 0x36,
0xe7, 0xe8, 0x18, 0xb0, 0x4b, 0x0b, 0xc3, 0x9c, 0x1e, 0x87,
0x6b, 0x19, 0x3b, 0xfe, 0x55, 0x69, 0x75, 0x3f, 0x88, 0x12,
0x8c, 0xc0, 0x8a, 0xaa, 0x9b, 0x63, 0xd1, 0xa1, 0x6f, 0x80,
0xef, 0x25, 0x54, 0xd7, 0x18, 0x9c, 0x41, 0x1f, 0x58, 0x69,
0xca, 0x52, 0xc5, 0xb8, 0x3f, 0xa3, 0x6f, 0xf2, 0x16, 0xb9,
0xc1, 0xd3, 0x00, 0x62, 0xbe, 0xbc, 0xfd, 0x2d, 0xc5, 0xbc,
0xe0, 0x91, 0x19, 0x34, 0xfd, 0xa7, 0x9a, 0x86, 0xf6, 0xe6,
0x98, 0xce, 0xd7, 0x59, 0xc3, 0xff, 0x9b, 0x64, 0x77, 0x33,
0x8f, 0x3d, 0xa4, 0xf9, 0xcd, 0x85, 0x14, 0xea, 0x99, 0x82,
0xcc, 0xaf, 0xb3, 0x41, 0xb2, 0x38, 0x4d, 0xd9, 0x02, 0xf3,
0xd1, 0xab, 0x7a, 0xc6, 0x1d, 0xd2, 0x9c, 0x6f, 0x21, 0xba,
0x5b, 0x86, 0x2f, 0x37, 0x30, 0xe3, 0x7c, 0xfd, 0xc4, 0xfd,
0x80, 0x6c, 0x22, 0xf2, 0x21 ]
msg = [ 0x41, 0x6e, 0x79, 0x20, 0x73, 0x75, 0x62, 0x6d, 0x69, 0x73,
0x73, 0x69, 0x6f, 0x6e, 0x20, 0x74, 0x6f, 0x20, 0x74, 0x68,
0x65, 0x20, 0x49, 0x45, 0x54, 0x46, 0x20, 0x69, 0x6e, 0x74,
0x65, 0x6e, 0x64, 0x65, 0x64, 0x20, 0x62, 0x79, 0x20, 0x74,
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0x75, 0x74, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x20, 0x66, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x20, 0x70,
0x75, 0x62, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x63, 0x61, 0x74, 0x69, 0x6f, 0x6e,
0x20, 0x61, 0x73, 0x20, 0x61, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x20, 0x6f, 0x72,
0x20, 0x70, 0x61, 0x72, 0x74, 0x20, 0x6f, 0x66, 0x20, 0x61,
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0x73, 0x69, 0x6f, 0x6e, 0x73, 0x2c, 0x20, 0x61, 0x73, 0x20,
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0x65, 0x64, 0x20, 0x74, 0x6f ]
rfctest03 = encrypt key 42 (zero # [2]) msg == out
where
key = [ 0x1c, 0x92, 0x40, 0xa5, 0xeb, 0x55, 0xd3, 0x8a, 0xf3, 0x33,
0x88, 0x86, 0x04, 0xf6, 0xb5, 0xf0, 0x47, 0x39, 0x17, 0xc1,
0x40, 0x2b, 0x80, 0x09, 0x9d, 0xca, 0x5c, 0xbc, 0x20, 0x70,
0x75, 0xc0 ]
out = [ 0x27, 0x54, 0x77, 0x61, 0x73, 0x20, 0x62, 0x72, 0x69, 0x6c,
0x6c, 0x69, 0x67, 0x2c, 0x20, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x64, 0x20, 0x74,
0x68, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x74, 0x68, 0x79, 0x20,
0x74, 0x6f, 0x76, 0x65, 0x73, 0x0a, 0x44, 0x69, 0x64, 0x20,
0x67, 0x79, 0x72, 0x65, 0x20, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x64, 0x20, 0x67,
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0x6c, 0x6c, 0x20, 0x6d, 0x69, 0x6d, 0x73, 0x79, 0x20, 0x77,
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0x65, 0x20, 0x72, 0x61, 0x74, 0x68, 0x73, 0x20, 0x6f, 0x75,
0x74, 0x67, 0x72, 0x61, 0x62, 0x65, 0x2e ]
msg = [ 0x62, 0xe6, 0x34, 0x7f, 0x95, 0xed, 0x87, 0xa4, 0x5f, 0xfa,
0xe7, 0x42, 0x6f, 0x27, 0xa1, 0xdf, 0x5f, 0xb6, 0x91, 0x10,
0x04, 0x4c, 0x0d, 0x73, 0x11, 0x8e, 0xff, 0xa9, 0x5b, 0x01,
0xe5, 0xcf, 0x16, 0x6d, 0x3d, 0xf2, 0xd7, 0x21, 0xca, 0xf9,
0xb2, 0x1e, 0x5f, 0xb1, 0x4c, 0x61, 0x68, 0x71, 0xfd, 0x84,
0xc5, 0x4f, 0x9d, 0x65, 0xb2, 0x83, 0x19, 0x6c, 0x7f, 0xe4,
0xf6, 0x05, 0x53, 0xeb, 0xf3, 0x9c, 0x64, 0x02, 0xc4, 0x22,
0x34, 0xe3, 0x2a, 0x35, 0x6b, 0x3e, 0x76, 0x43, 0x12, 0xa6,
0x1a, 0x55, 0x32, 0x05, 0x57, 0x16, 0xea, 0xd6, 0x96, 0x25,
0x68, 0xf8, 0x7d, 0x3f, 0x3f, 0x77, 0x04, 0xc6, 0xa8, 0xd1,
0xbc, 0xd1, 0xbf, 0x4d, 0x50, 0xd6, 0x15, 0x4b, 0x6d, 0xa7,
0x31, 0xb1, 0x87, 0xb5, 0x8d, 0xfd, 0x72, 0x8a, 0xfa, 0x36,
0x75, 0x7a, 0x79, 0x7a, 0xc1, 0x88, 0xd1 ]
property allTestsPass =
([ // Basic tests
qround01, core01, core02
// Full RFC test vectors
, rfctest01, rfctest02, rfctest03
] : [_]Bit) == ~zero // All test bits should equal one
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/* -- Private utilities ----------------------------------------------------- */
private
// Convert a round into a block, by splitting every 32-bit round entry
// into 4 bytes, and then serialize those values into a full block.
blocked : Round -> Block
blocked x = join (map toBytes x)
where
// This essentially splits a 32-bit number into 4-byte
// little-endian form, where 'rjoin' is the inverse and would merge
// 4 bytes as a 32-bit little endian number.
toBytes : [32] -> [4][8]
toBytes v = reverse (groupBy`{8} v)
// Map a function over a finite list.
map : { a, b, c }
(a -> b) -> [c]a -> [c]b
map f xs = [ f x | x <- xs ]
// Map a function iteratively over a seed value, producing an infinite
// list of successive function applications:
//
// iterate f 0 == [ 0, f 0, f (f 0), f (f (f 0)), ... ]
iterate : { a } (a -> a) -> a -> [inf]a
iterate f x = [x] # [ f v | v <- iterate f x ]
where
// NB: Needs a binded name in order to tie the recursive knot.
xs = [x] # [ f v | v <- xs ]
// rjoin = join . reverse
// This encodes a sequence of values as a little endian number
// e.g. [ 0xaa, 0xbb, 0xcc, 0xdd ] is serialized as \xdd\xcc\xbb\xaa
rjoin : {a, b, c}
( fin a, fin c
) => [c][a]b -> [a * c]b
rjoin x = join (reverse x)