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EAP-pwd server: Use os_get_random() for unpredictable token

Do not use os_random() that uses a low quality PRNG to generate the
anti-clogging token. The construction can be improved upon by replacing
it with a call to os_get_random(), which uses a high quality PRNG. While
the RFC 5931 explictly recommends not to do this ("SHOULD NOT be from a
source of random entropy"), it does still mandate unpredicability ("MUST
be unpredictable"). The anti-clogging token is most unpredictable when
it is taken from a high quality PRNG.

Signed-off-by: Nick Lowe <nick.lowe@lugatech.com>
Nick Lowe 9 years ago
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1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 7 2
      src/eap_server/eap_server_pwd.c

+ 7 - 2
src/eap_server/eap_server_pwd.c

@@ -178,8 +178,13 @@ static void eap_pwd_build_id_req(struct eap_sm *sm, struct eap_pwd_data *data,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	/* an lfsr is good enough to generate unpredictable tokens */
-	data->token = os_random();
+	if (os_get_random((u8 *) &data->token, sizeof(data->token)) < 0) {
+		wpabuf_free(data->outbuf);
+		data->outbuf = NULL;
+		eap_pwd_state(data, FAILURE);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	wpabuf_put_be16(data->outbuf, data->group_num);
 	wpabuf_put_u8(data->outbuf, EAP_PWD_DEFAULT_RAND_FUNC);
 	wpabuf_put_u8(data->outbuf, EAP_PWD_DEFAULT_PRF);