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2017-05-31crypto: tests, errors, and descriptor computationJoe Richey joerichey@google.com
This changes the crypto package so it now builds in light of the changes to the util and metadata package. This commit also improves the error handling, adds tests, and makes it so recovery keys now correspond to Policy keys (as they are used to recover a directory in the absence of any metadata). The only feature addition here is the ability to compute descriptors. For backwards compatibility, we keep the same descriptor algorithm used before (double SHA512). Change-Id: Ia2b53c6e85ce65c57595e6823d3c4c92219bc8dc
2017-05-02crypto: reading and writing recovery keysJoe Richey
This commit adds in the concept of recovery codes: human-readable strings that contain the necessary information to rederive a cryptographic key. These keys look like: 73PZBXVP-DKJX7SKV-NNTFIC7A-QEGRPZUX-4K5ORRH2-MTKMKP3B-HFCA==== They are input or output directly to a io.Reader or io.Writer respectively. This prevents the data from passing through unsecured memory before it gets to its destination. Of course, if the provided io.Reader or io.Writer is insecure, there is nothing we can do. In most cases the provided io.Reader or io.Writer will be stdin or stdout. In some rare cases you might want to pipe the output to another key. This commit also adds tests and benchmarks for encoding/decoding recovery codes. It also tests that encoding/decoding will fail in the correct situations. A benchmark is also added to measure the effect of locking the keys in memory. Change-Id: Ifa0bc4c08582789785cf1cdd9a4acfe76c79534f