3 * A cryptographic random generator class used for generating secret keys
5 * This is based in part on Drupal code as well as what we used in our own code
6 * prior to introduction of this class.
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23 * @author Daniel Friesen
29 * Minimum number of iterations we want to make in our drift calculations.
31 const MIN_ITERATIONS
= 1000;
34 * Number of milliseconds we want to spend generating each separate byte
35 * of the final generated bytes.
36 * This is used in combination with the hash length to determine the duration
37 * we should spend doing drift calculations.
39 const MSEC_PER_BYTE
= 0.5;
42 * Singleton instance for public use
44 protected static $singleton = null;
47 * The hash algorithm being used
49 protected $algo = null;
52 * The number of bytes outputted by the hash algorithm
54 protected $hashLength = null;
57 * A boolean indicating whether the previous random generation was done using
58 * cryptographically strong random number generator or not.
60 protected $strong = null;
63 * Initialize an initial random state based off of whatever we can find
66 protected function initialRandomState() {
67 // $_SERVER contains a variety of unstable user and system specific information
68 // It'll vary a little with each page, and vary even more with separate users
69 // It'll also vary slightly across different machines
70 $state = serialize( $_SERVER );
72 // To try vary the system information of the state a bit more
73 // by including the system's hostname into the state
74 $state .= wfHostname();
76 // Try to gather a little entropy from the different php rand sources
77 $state .= rand() . uniqid( mt_rand(), true );
79 // Include some information about the filesystem's current state in the random state
82 // We know this file is here so grab some info about ourselves
85 // We must also have a parent folder, and with the usual file structure, a grandparent
87 $files[] = dirname( __DIR__
);
89 // The config file is likely the most often edited file we know should
90 // be around so include its stat info into the state.
91 // The constant with its location will almost always be defined, as
92 // WebStart.php defines MW_CONFIG_FILE to $IP/LocalSettings.php unless
93 // being configured with MW_CONFIG_CALLBACK (e.g. the installer).
94 if ( defined( 'MW_CONFIG_FILE' ) ) {
95 $files[] = MW_CONFIG_FILE
;
98 foreach ( $files as $file ) {
100 $stat = stat( $file );
103 // stat() duplicates data into numeric and string keys so kill off all the numeric ones
104 foreach ( $stat as $k => $v ) {
105 if ( is_numeric( $k ) ) {
109 // The absolute filename itself will differ from install to install so don't leave it out
110 if ( ( $path = realpath( $file ) ) !== false ) {
115 $state .= implode( '', $stat );
117 // The fact that the file isn't there is worth at least a
118 // minuscule amount of entropy.
123 // Try and make this a little more unstable by including the varying process
124 // id of the php process we are running inside of if we are able to access it
125 if ( function_exists( 'getmypid' ) ) {
126 $state .= getmypid();
129 // If available try to increase the instability of the data by throwing in
130 // the precise amount of memory that we happen to be using at the moment.
131 if ( function_exists( 'memory_get_usage' ) ) {
132 $state .= memory_get_usage( true );
135 // It's mostly worthless but throw the wiki's id into the data for a little more variance
136 $state .= wfWikiID();
138 // If we have a secret key set then throw it into the state as well
140 if ( $wgSecretKey ) {
141 $state .= $wgSecretKey;
148 * Randomly hash data while mixing in clock drift data for randomness
150 * @param string $data The data to randomly hash.
151 * @return string The hashed bytes
152 * @author Tim Starling
154 protected function driftHash( $data ) {
155 // Minimum number of iterations (to avoid slow operations causing the
156 // loop to gather little entropy)
157 $minIterations = self
::MIN_ITERATIONS
;
158 // Duration of time to spend doing calculations (in seconds)
159 $duration = ( self
::MSEC_PER_BYTE
/ 1000 ) * $this->hashLength();
160 // Create a buffer to use to trigger memory operations
161 $bufLength = 10000000;
162 $buffer = str_repeat( ' ', $bufLength );
165 // Iterate for $duration seconds or at least $minIterations number of iterations
167 $startTime = microtime( true );
168 $currentTime = $startTime;
169 while ( $iterations < $minIterations ||
$currentTime - $startTime < $duration ) {
170 // Trigger some memory writing to trigger some bus activity
171 // This may create variance in the time between iterations
172 $bufPos = ( $bufPos +
13 ) %
$bufLength;
173 $buffer[$bufPos] = ' ';
174 // Add the drift between this iteration and the last in as entropy
175 $nextTime = microtime( true );
176 $delta = (int)( ( $nextTime - $currentTime ) * 1000000 );
178 // Every 100 iterations hash the data and entropy
179 if ( $iterations %
100 === 0 ) {
180 $data = sha1( $data );
182 $currentTime = $nextTime;
185 $timeTaken = $currentTime - $startTime;
186 $data = $this->hash( $data );
188 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": Clock drift calculation " .
189 "(time-taken=" . ( $timeTaken * 1000 ) . "ms, " .
190 "iterations=$iterations, " .
191 "time-per-iteration=" . ( $timeTaken / $iterations * 1e6
) . "us)\n" );
197 * Return a rolling random state initially build using data from unstable sources
198 * @return string A new weak random state
200 protected function randomState() {
201 static $state = null;
202 if ( is_null( $state ) ) {
203 // Initialize the state with whatever unstable data we can find
204 // It's important that this data is hashed right afterwards to prevent
205 // it from being leaked into the output stream
206 $state = $this->hash( $this->initialRandomState() );
208 // Generate a new random state based on the initial random state or previous
209 // random state by combining it with clock drift
210 $state = $this->driftHash( $state );
216 * Decide on the best acceptable hash algorithm we have available for hash()
217 * @throws MWException
218 * @return string A hash algorithm
220 protected function hashAlgo() {
221 if ( !is_null( $this->algo
) ) {
225 $algos = hash_algos();
226 $preference = array( 'whirlpool', 'sha256', 'sha1', 'md5' );
228 foreach ( $preference as $algorithm ) {
229 if ( in_array( $algorithm, $algos ) ) {
230 $this->algo
= $algorithm;
231 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": Using the {$this->algo} hash algorithm.\n" );
237 // We only reach here if no acceptable hash is found in the list, this should
238 // be a technical impossibility since most of php's hash list is fixed and
239 // some of the ones we list are available as their own native functions
240 // But since we already require at least 5.2 and hash() was default in
241 // 5.1.2 we don't bother falling back to methods like sha1 and md5.
242 throw new MWException( "Could not find an acceptable hashing function in hash_algos()" );
246 * Return the byte-length output of the hash algorithm we are
247 * using in self::hash and self::hmac.
249 * @return int Number of bytes the hash outputs
251 protected function hashLength() {
252 if ( is_null( $this->hashLength
) ) {
253 $this->hashLength
= strlen( $this->hash( '' ) );
256 return $this->hashLength
;
260 * Generate an acceptably unstable one-way-hash of some text
261 * making use of the best hash algorithm that we have available.
263 * @param string $data
264 * @return string A raw hash of the data
266 protected function hash( $data ) {
267 return hash( $this->hashAlgo(), $data, true );
271 * Generate an acceptably unstable one-way-hmac of some text
272 * making use of the best hash algorithm that we have available.
274 * @param string $data
276 * @return string A raw hash of the data
278 protected function hmac( $data, $key ) {
279 return hash_hmac( $this->hashAlgo(), $data, $key, true );
283 * @see self::wasStrong()
285 public function realWasStrong() {
286 if ( is_null( $this->strong
) ) {
287 throw new MWException( __METHOD__
. ' called before generation of random data' );
290 return $this->strong
;
294 * @see self::generate()
296 public function realGenerate( $bytes, $forceStrong = false ) {
298 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": Generating cryptographic random bytes for " .
299 wfGetAllCallers( 5 ) . "\n" );
301 $bytes = floor( $bytes );
303 if ( is_null( $this->strong
) ) {
304 // Set strength to false initially until we know what source data is coming from
305 $this->strong
= true;
308 if ( strlen( $buffer ) < $bytes ) {
309 // If available make use of mcrypt_create_iv URANDOM source to generate randomness
310 // On unix-like systems this reads from /dev/urandom but does it without any buffering
311 // and bypasses openbasedir restrictions, so it's preferable to reading directly
312 // On Windows starting in PHP 5.3.0 Windows' native CryptGenRandom is used to generate
313 // entropy so this is also preferable to just trying to read urandom because it may work
314 // on Windows systems as well.
315 if ( function_exists( 'mcrypt_create_iv' ) ) {
316 $rem = $bytes - strlen( $buffer );
317 $iv = mcrypt_create_iv( $rem, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM
);
318 if ( $iv === false ) {
319 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": mcrypt_create_iv returned false.\n" );
322 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": mcrypt_create_iv generated " . strlen( $iv ) .
323 " bytes of randomness.\n" );
328 if ( strlen( $buffer ) < $bytes ) {
329 // If available make use of openssl's random_pseudo_bytes method to
330 // attempt to generate randomness. However don't do this on Windows
331 // with PHP < 5.3.4 due to a bug:
332 // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1940168/openssl-random-pseudo-bytes-is-slow-php
333 // http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd62a70863c261b07f6dadedad9464f7e213cad5
334 if ( function_exists( 'openssl_random_pseudo_bytes' )
335 && ( !wfIsWindows() ||
version_compare( PHP_VERSION
, '5.3.4', '>=' ) )
337 $rem = $bytes - strlen( $buffer );
338 $openssl_bytes = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes( $rem, $openssl_strong );
339 if ( $openssl_bytes === false ) {
340 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": openssl_random_pseudo_bytes returned false.\n" );
342 $buffer .= $openssl_bytes;
343 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": openssl_random_pseudo_bytes generated " .
344 strlen( $openssl_bytes ) . " bytes of " .
345 ( $openssl_strong ?
"strong" : "weak" ) . " randomness.\n" );
347 if ( strlen( $buffer ) >= $bytes ) {
348 // openssl tells us if the random source was strong, if some of our data was generated
349 // using it use it's say on whether the randomness is strong
350 $this->strong
= !!$openssl_strong;
355 // Only read from urandom if we can control the buffer size or were passed forceStrong
356 if ( strlen( $buffer ) < $bytes &&
357 ( function_exists( 'stream_set_read_buffer' ) ||
$forceStrong )
359 $rem = $bytes - strlen( $buffer );
360 if ( !function_exists( 'stream_set_read_buffer' ) && $forceStrong ) {
361 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": Was forced to read from /dev/urandom " .
362 "without control over the buffer size.\n" );
364 // /dev/urandom is generally considered the best possible commonly
365 // available random source, and is available on most *nix systems.
366 wfSuppressWarnings();
367 $urandom = fopen( "/dev/urandom", "rb" );
370 // Attempt to read all our random data from urandom
371 // php's fread always does buffered reads based on the stream's chunk_size
372 // so in reality it will usually read more than the amount of data we're
373 // asked for and not storing that risks depleting the system's random pool.
374 // If stream_set_read_buffer is available set the chunk_size to the amount
375 // of data we need. Otherwise read 8k, php's default chunk_size.
377 // php's default chunk_size is 8k
378 $chunk_size = 1024 * 8;
379 if ( function_exists( 'stream_set_read_buffer' ) ) {
380 // If possible set the chunk_size to the amount of data we need
381 stream_set_read_buffer( $urandom, $rem );
384 $random_bytes = fread( $urandom, max( $chunk_size, $rem ) );
385 $buffer .= $random_bytes;
387 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": /dev/urandom generated " . strlen( $random_bytes ) .
388 " bytes of randomness.\n" );
390 if ( strlen( $buffer ) >= $bytes ) {
391 // urandom is always strong, set to true if all our data was generated using it
392 $this->strong
= true;
395 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": /dev/urandom could not be opened.\n" );
399 // If we cannot use or generate enough data from a secure source
400 // use this loop to generate a good set of pseudo random data.
401 // This works by initializing a random state using a pile of unstable data
402 // and continually shoving it through a hash along with a variable salt.
403 // We hash the random state with more salt to avoid the state from leaking
404 // out and being used to predict the /randomness/ that follows.
405 if ( strlen( $buffer ) < $bytes ) {
406 wfDebug( __METHOD__
.
407 ": Falling back to using a pseudo random state to generate randomness.\n" );
409 while ( strlen( $buffer ) < $bytes ) {
410 $buffer .= $this->hmac( $this->randomState(), mt_rand() );
411 // This code is never really cryptographically strong, if we use it
412 // at all, then set strong to false.
413 $this->strong
= false;
416 // Once the buffer has been filled up with enough random data to fulfill
417 // the request shift off enough data to handle the request and leave the
418 // unused portion left inside the buffer for the next request for random data
419 $generated = substr( $buffer, 0, $bytes );
420 $buffer = substr( $buffer, $bytes );
422 wfDebug( __METHOD__
. ": " . strlen( $buffer ) .
423 " bytes of randomness leftover in the buffer.\n" );
429 * @see self::generateHex()
431 public function realGenerateHex( $chars, $forceStrong = false ) {
432 // hex strings are 2x the length of raw binary so we divide the length in half
433 // odd numbers will result in a .5 that leads the generate() being 1 character
434 // short, so we use ceil() to ensure that we always have enough bytes
435 $bytes = ceil( $chars / 2 );
436 // Generate the data and then convert it to a hex string
437 $hex = bin2hex( $this->generate( $bytes, $forceStrong ) );
439 // A bit of paranoia here, the caller asked for a specific length of string
440 // here, and it's possible (eg when given an odd number) that we may actually
441 // have at least 1 char more than they asked for. Just in case they made this
442 // call intending to insert it into a database that does truncation we don't
443 // want to give them too much and end up with their database and their live
444 // code having two different values because part of what we gave them is truncated
445 // hence, we strip out any run of characters longer than what we were asked for.
446 return substr( $hex, 0, $chars );
449 /** Publicly exposed static methods **/
452 * Return a singleton instance of MWCryptRand
453 * @return MWCryptRand
455 protected static function singleton() {
456 if ( is_null( self
::$singleton ) ) {
457 self
::$singleton = new self
;
460 return self
::$singleton;
464 * Return a boolean indicating whether or not the source used for cryptographic
465 * random bytes generation in the previously run generate* call
466 * was cryptographically strong.
468 * @return bool Returns true if the source was strong, false if not.
470 public static function wasStrong() {
471 return self
::singleton()->realWasStrong();
475 * Generate a run of (ideally) cryptographically random data and return
476 * it in raw binary form.
477 * You can use MWCryptRand::wasStrong() if you wish to know if the source used
478 * was cryptographically strong.
480 * @param int $bytes The number of bytes of random data to generate
481 * @param bool $forceStrong Pass true if you want generate to prefer cryptographically
482 * strong sources of entropy even if reading from them may steal
483 * more entropy from the system than optimal.
484 * @return string Raw binary random data
486 public static function generate( $bytes, $forceStrong = false ) {
487 return self
::singleton()->realGenerate( $bytes, $forceStrong );
491 * Generate a run of (ideally) cryptographically random data and return
492 * it in hexadecimal string format.
493 * You can use MWCryptRand::wasStrong() if you wish to know if the source used
494 * was cryptographically strong.
496 * @param int $chars The number of hex chars of random data to generate
497 * @param bool $forceStrong Pass true if you want generate to prefer cryptographically
498 * strong sources of entropy even if reading from them may steal
499 * more entropy from the system than optimal.
500 * @return string Hexadecimal random data
502 public static function generateHex( $chars, $forceStrong = false ) {
503 return self
::singleton()->realGenerateHex( $chars, $forceStrong );