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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`
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61
Paul Kehrercf6ffb52014-02-12 16:17:04 -060062Creating Test Vectors
63---------------------
64
65When official vectors are unavailable ``cryptography`` may choose to build
66its own using existing vectors as source material. Current custom vectors:
67
68.. toctree::
69 :maxdepth: 1
70
71 custom-vectors/cast5
72
73If official test vectors appear in the future the custom generated vectors
74should be discarded.
75
76Any vectors generated by this method must also be prefixed with the following
77header format (substituting the correct information):
78
79.. code-block:: python
80
81 # CAST5 CBC vectors built for https://github.com/pyca/cryptography
82 # Derived from the AESVS MMT test data for CBC
83 # Verified against the CommonCrypto and Go crypto packages
84 # Key Length : 128
85
Paul Kehrer1681a692014-02-11 23:43:51 -060086.. _`NIST`: http://www.nist.gov/
87.. _`IETF`: https://www.ietf.org/
88.. _`NIST CAVP`: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/
89.. _`Bruce Schneier's vectors`: https://www.schneier.com/code/vectors.txt
90.. _`Camellia page`: http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/camellia/
91.. _`CRYPTREC`: http://www.cryptrec.go.jp
92.. _`OpenSSL's test vectors`: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/97cf1f6c2854a3a955fd7dd3a1f113deba00c9ef/crypto/evp/evptests.txt#L232
93.. _`RIPEMD website`: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html
94.. _`Whirlpool website`: http://www.larc.usp.br/~pbarreto/WhirlpoolPage.html
95.. _`Specification repository`: https://github.com/fernet/spec