The bulk of RSA_check_key is spent in bn_div_consttime, which is a naive
but constant-time long-division algorithm for the few places that divide
by a secret even divisor: RSA keygen and RSA import. RSA import is
somewhat performance-sensitive, so pick some low-hanging fruit:
The main observation is that, in all but one call site, the bit width of
the divisor is public. That means, for an N-bit divisor, we can skip the
first N-1 iterations of long division because an N-1-bit remainder
cannot exceed the N-bit divisor.
One minor nuisance is bn_lcm_consttime, used in RSA keygen has a case
that does *not* have a public bit width. Apply the optimization there
would leak information. I've implemented this as an optional public
lower bound on num_bits(divisor), which all but that call fills in.
Before:
Did 5060 RSA 2048 private key parse operations in 1058526us (4780.2 ops/sec)
Did 1551 RSA 4096 private key parse operations in 1082343us (1433.0 ops/sec)
After:
Did 11532 RSA 2048 private key parse operations in 1084145us (10637.0 ops/sec) [+122.5%]
Did 3542 RSA 4096 private key parse operations in 1036374us (3417.7 ops/sec) [+138.5%]
Bug: b/192484677
Change-Id: I893ebb8886aeb8200a1a365673b56c49774221a2
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/49106
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
David Benjamin
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