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Add Everest to threat model
Signed-off-by: Janos Follath <janos.follath@arm.com>
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- Use cryptographic mechanisms that are not based on block ciphers. In
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particular, for authenticated encryption, use ChaCha20/Poly1305 instead of
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block cipher modes. For random generation, use HMAC\_DRBG instead of CTR\_DRBG.
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#### Everest
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The HACL* implementation of X25519 taken from the Everest project only protects
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against remote timing attacks. (See their [Security
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Policy](https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star/blob/main/SECURITY.md).)
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The Everest variant is only used when `MBEDTLS_ECDH_VARIANT_EVEREST_ENABLED`
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configuration option is defined. This option is off by default.

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