// Package stupidgcm wraps OpenSSL to provide a cipher.AEAD interface for // authenticated encryption algorithms. // // The supported algorithms are: // // (1) AES-GCM-256 (OpenSSL EVP_aes_256_gcm) // // (2) ChaCha20-Poly1305 (OpenSSL EVP_chacha20_poly1305) // // (3) XChaCha20-Poly1305 (OpenSSL EVP_chacha20_poly1305 + Go HChaCha20) // // The golang.org/x/crypto libraries provides implementations for all algorithms, // and the test suite verifies that the implementation in this package gives // the exact same results. // // However, OpenSSL has optimized assembly for almost all platforms, which Go // does not. Example for a 32-bit ARM device (Odroid XU4): // // $ gocrypts -speed // gocryptfs v2.1-68-gedf9d4c.stupidchacha; go-fuse v2.1.1-0.20210825171523-3ab5d95a30ae; 2021-09-04 go1.16.7 linux/arm // AES-GCM-256-OpenSSL 56.84 MB/s (selected in auto mode) // AES-GCM-256-Go 16.61 MB/s // AES-SIV-512-Go 16.49 MB/s // XChaCha20-Poly1305-Go 39.08 MB/s (use via -xchacha flag) // XChaCha20-Poly1305-OpenSSL 141.82 MB/s // // This package is "stupid" in the sense that it only supports a narrow set of // key- and iv-lengths, and panics if it does not like what you pass it. // See the constructor functions for which restrictions apply for each algorithm. // Also, it is only tested for block lengths up to 5000 bytes, because this is // what gocryptfs uses. // // Corrupt ciphertexts never cause a panic. Instead, ErrAuth is returned on // decryption. // // XChaCha20-Poly1305 // // The XChaCha20-Poly1305 implementation is more complicated than the others, // because OpenSSL does not support XChaCha20-Poly1305 directly. Follow // https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/5523 to get notified when it is // accepted into OpenSSL. // // Fortunately, XChaCha20-Poly1305 is just ChaCha20-Poly1305 with some key+iv // mixing using HChaCha20 in front: // // key (32 bytes), iv (24 bytes) // | // v // HChaCha20 (provided by golang.org/x/crypto/chacha20) // | // v // key2 (32 bytes), iv2 (16 bytes) // | // v // ChaCha20-Poly1305 (OpenSSL EVP_chacha20_poly1305) // // As HChaCha20 is very fast, XChaCha20-Poly1305 gets almost the same throughput // as ChaCha20-Poly1305 (for 4kiB blocks). package stupidgcm