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PHP Constant Time String Encoding: Encode text without leaking context information

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Paragon Initiative Enterprises
Steve 'Sc00bz' Thomas


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This package can encode and decode text without leaking context information.

It provides pure PHP based functions that encode and decode without leaking information about what you are encoding and decoding via processor cache misses.

Currently it provides functions to encode and decode data using the algorithms for base64, base32, base16 and hexadecimal.

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Constant time encoding is an approach to generate variable data that takes the same length of time regardless of the data that it is generating.

This is important because if different data values passed to code that implements a given processing algorithm take a variable length of time to run, it may help to expose secret values that the algorithm is using, thus compromising the security of the system.

This package provides an implementation of several data encoding algorithms in pure PHP code, in such a way that they always take the same length of time to execute regardless of the data that it is processing, thus providing more security protection to applications that use this package.

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Constant-Time Encoding

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Based on the constant-time base64 implementation made by Steve "Sc00bz" Thomas, this library aims to offer character encoding functions that do not leak information about what you are encoding/decoding via processor cache misses. Further reading on cache-timing attacks.

Our fork offers the following enchancements:

  • `mbstring.func_overload` resistance
  • Unit tests
  • Composer- and Packagist-ready
  • Base16 encoding
  • Base32 encoding
  • Uses `pack()` and `unpack()` instead of `chr()` and `ord()`

PHP Version Requirements

Version 2 of this library should work on PHP 7 or newer. For PHP 5 support, see the v1.x branch.

If you are adding this as a dependency to a project intended to work on both PHP 5 and PHP 7, please set the required version to ^1|^2 instead of just ^1 or ^2.

How to Install

composer require paragonie/constant_time_encoding

How to Use

use \ParagonIE\ConstantTime\Encoding;

// possibly (if applicable): 
// require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$data = random_bytes(32);
echo Encoding::base64Encode($data), "\n";
echo Encoding::base32EncodeUpper($data), "\n";
echo Encoding::base32Encode($data), "\n";
echo Encoding::hexEncode($data), "\n";
echo Encoding::hexEncodeUpper($data), "\n";

Example output:

1VilPkeVqirlPifk5scbzcTTbMT2clp+Zkyv9VFFasE=
2VMKKPSHSWVCVZJ6E7SONRY3ZXCNG3GE6ZZFU7TGJSX7KUKFNLAQ====
2vmkkpshswvcvzj6e7sonry3zxcng3ge6zzfu7tgjsx7kukfnlaq====
d558a53e4795aa2ae53e27e4e6c71bcdc4d36cc4f6725a7e664caff551456ac1
D558A53E4795AA2AE53E27E4E6C71BDCC4D36CC4F6725A7E664CAFF551456AC1

If you only need a particular variant, you can just reference the required class like so:

use \ParagonIE\ConstantTime\Base64;
use \ParagonIE\ConstantTime\Base32;

$data = random_bytes(32);
echo Base64::encode($data), "\n";
echo Base32::encode($data), "\n";

Example output:

1VilPkeVqirlPifk5scbzcTTbMT2clp+Zkyv9VFFasE=
2vmkkpshswvcvzj6e7sonry3zxcng3ge6zzfu7tgjsx7kukfnlaq====

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If your company uses this library in their products or services, you may be interested in purchasing a support contract from Paragon Initiative Enterprises.


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