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Using GCM Nonce pattern for CBC, CFB, and CTR #261

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Following GCM use of gyb for Nonce generation, I converted IV and Nonce classes of the CBC, CFB, and CTR to allow conformance to ContinuousBytes and Sequence.

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  • I've run tests to see all new and existing tests pass
  • I've followed the code style of the rest of the project
  • I've read the Contribution Guidelines
  • [?] I've updated the documentation if necessary (Probably need to do this)

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  • I've run .script/generate_boilerplate_files_with_gyb and included updated generated files in a commit of this pull request

Motivation:

The project I am working on uses a AES CBC algorithm to send encrypted data to exchange keys between a server and client. This means, that the client and server exchange the IV/Nonce with each other. Currently, we can only use CommonCrypto, because AES._CBC.IV doesn't facilitate an API to get the internal data bytes.

Modifications:

Removed the current IV and Nonce structs from their corresponding files. Made a Nonces.swift.gyb file that will generate the corresponding structs for each algorithm.

Result:

Allows us to integrate Crypto into our repository and fix an issue we have involving padding of our cipher data, when using CCCrypt

I'm happy to add unit tests for this PR, however I don't think they are needed. While the conformance to new Protocols is public, I believe their use is also internal and so they are being exercised by the current set of unit tests.

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This is a really nice change in terms of getting the API laid out! However, it'd be really nice to keep the Nonces and IVs stored directly, instead of using Data objects. Can we return to that representation?

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Yeah, I'll give it a shot

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changed from Data back to the Tuple style. I did give them typealiases

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Just a friendly bump: @Lukasa in case it gets lost in the shuffle

@Lukasa Lukasa added the semver/minor Adds new public API. label Sep 30, 2024
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Lukasa commented Sep 30, 2024

@swift-server-bot add to allowlist

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/// Returns an iterator over the elements of the nonce.
public func makeIterator() -> Array<UInt8>.Iterator {
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Let's use our own iterator type to hide the face that we're using Array. We can make this cheaper in future, and it would probably be nice to do so.

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Sounds good

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I gave it a shot, and made a generic Iterator that could be used by all three.

It might make sense to bring it into the GBC and ChaChaPoly nonces too

fileprivate struct ByteIterator<T>: IteratorProtocol {
var currentOffset = 0
var pointer: UnsafeRawBufferPointer? = nil
let length: Int
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Great change! Let's drop the pointer though. In the fullness of time this may end up using Span, but for now we can still use the Array iterator in here. I don't think we want a pointer, so we'd have to use some other spelling.

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OK. I wasn't sure if you were suggesting to also drop the offset and length. (I was trying to figure out what you meant by Span)

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Oh sorry, span is here

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I don't think we need the length tracking any longer, array's iterator can do that.

fileprivate struct ByteIterator<T>: IteratorProtocol {
var currentOffset = 0
var pointer: UnsafeRawBufferPointer? = nil
let length: Int
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I don't think we need the length tracking any longer, array's iterator can do that.

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/// Returns an iterator over the elements of the nonce.
public func makeIterator() -> some IteratorProtocol<UInt8> {
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Let's add @inlinable annotations to every function on this type. It'll require @usableFromInline on the typealias, var bytes, and static var emptyBytes but that should be fine too.

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