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Paul Kehrer1681a692014-02-11 23:43:51 -06001Test Vectors
2============
3
4Testing the correctness of the primitives implemented in each ``cryptography``
5backend requires trusted test vectors. Where possible these vectors are obtained
6from official sources such as `NIST`_ or `IETF`_ RFCs. When this is not possible
7``cryptography`` has chosen to create a set of custom vectors using an official
8vector file as input to verify consistency between implemented backends.
9
10Sources
11-------
12
13Asymmetric Ciphers
14~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
15
16* RSA PKCS1 from the RSA FTP site (ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-1/
17 and ftp://ftp.rsa.com/pub/rsalabs/tmp/).
18
19Hashes
20~~~~~~
21
22* MD5 from :rfc:`1321`.
23* RIPEMD160 from the `RIPEMD website`_.
24* SHA1 from `NIST CAVP`_.
25* SHA2 (224, 256, 384, 512) from `NIST CAVP`_.
26* Whirlpool from the `Whirlpool website`_.
27
28HMAC
29~~~~
30
31* HMAC-MD5 from :rfc:`2202`.
32* HMAC-SHA1 from :rfc:`2202`.
33* HMAC-RIPEMD160 from :rfc:`2286`.
34* HMAC-SHA2 (224, 256, 384, 512) from :rfc:`4231`.
35
36Key Derivation Functions
37~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
38
39* HKDF (SHA1, SHA256) from :rfc:`5869`.
40* PBKDF2 (HMAC-SHA1) from :rfc:`6070`.
41
42Recipes
43~~~~~~~
44
45* Fernet from its `specification repository`_.
46
47Symmetric Ciphers
48~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
49
Paul Kehrere547d8f2014-02-15 21:37:52 -060050* AES (CBC, CFB, ECB, GCM, OFB) from `NIST CAVP`_.
51* AES CTR from :rfc:`3686`.
Paul Kehrer1681a692014-02-11 23:43:51 -060052* 3DES (CBC, CFB, ECB, OFB) from `NIST CAVP`_.
53* ARC4 from :rfc:`6229`.
54* Blowfish (CBC, CFB, ECB, OFB) from `Bruce Schneier's vectors`_.
55* Camellia (ECB) from NTT's `Camellia page`_ as linked by `CRYPTREC`_.
56* Camellia (CBC, CFB, OFB) from `OpenSSL's test vectors`_.
57* CAST5 (ECB) from :rfc:`2144`.
Paul Kehrercf6ffb52014-02-12 16:17:04 -060058* CAST5 (CBC, CFB, OFB) generated by this project.
59 See: :doc:`/development/custom-vectors/cast5`
Paul Kehrer1681a692014-02-11 23:43:51 -060060
Ayrx933dd682014-02-18 23:26:11 +080061Two Factor Authentication
62~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
63
64* HOTP from :rfc:`4226`
65* TOTP from :rfc:`6238` (Note that an `errata`_ for the test vectors in RFC 6238 exists)
66
Paul Kehrer1681a692014-02-11 23:43:51 -060067
Paul Kehrercf6ffb52014-02-12 16:17:04 -060068Creating Test Vectors
69---------------------
70
71When official vectors are unavailable ``cryptography`` may choose to build
72its own using existing vectors as source material. Current custom vectors:
73
74.. toctree::
75 :maxdepth: 1
76
77 custom-vectors/cast5
78
79If official test vectors appear in the future the custom generated vectors
80should be discarded.
81
82Any vectors generated by this method must also be prefixed with the following
83header format (substituting the correct information):
84
85.. code-block:: python
86
87 # CAST5 CBC vectors built for https://github.com/pyca/cryptography
88 # Derived from the AESVS MMT test data for CBC
89 # Verified against the CommonCrypto and Go crypto packages
90 # Key Length : 128
91
Paul Kehrer1681a692014-02-11 23:43:51 -060092.. _`NIST`: http://www.nist.gov/
93.. _`IETF`: https://www.ietf.org/
94.. _`NIST CAVP`: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/
95.. _`Bruce Schneier's vectors`: https://www.schneier.com/code/vectors.txt
96.. _`Camellia page`: http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/camellia/
97.. _`CRYPTREC`: http://www.cryptrec.go.jp
98.. _`OpenSSL's test vectors`: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/97cf1f6c2854a3a955fd7dd3a1f113deba00c9ef/crypto/evp/evptests.txt#L232
99.. _`RIPEMD website`: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html
100.. _`Whirlpool website`: http://www.larc.usp.br/~pbarreto/WhirlpoolPage.html
101.. _`Specification repository`: https://github.com/fernet/spec
Ayrx933dd682014-02-18 23:26:11 +0800102.. _`errata`: http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=6238