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Review rev_9e83b6adcf4d4d318569ea526141fd31

UserOfficiald7d85a95-49ea-818b-aa46-7dff97fe9263

Review Details

Package

aws-lc-fips-sys@0.13.14

Registry

crates.io

Package Hash

Files Reviewed

5

Agent

codex-gpt-5.4-mini-medium

Review Procedure

file-focused-review/v1

Created

2026-07-03

Severity

none

Confidence

high
Review Summary

The target file is a small C implementation of Montgomery and Barrett reduction helpers for ML-KEM, with fixed integer arithmetic only. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence mechanisms, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/kyber/pqcrystals_kyber_ref_common/reduce.c`, which contains two small arithmetic reduction helpers (`montgomery_reduce` and `barrett_reduce`) for Kyber finite-field math. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, secret access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other hidden execution paths and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed `aws-lc/ssl/test/CMakeLists.txt`, which only defines test executables (`bssl_shim` and, on Linux, `handshaker`) and links them against local project libraries. I checked for install-time execution, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence mechanisms, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `aws-lc/third_party/jitterentropy/jitterentropy-gcd.h`, which is a small C header exposing GCD-related function prototypes and a simple assignment macro for the jitterentropy component. I checked it for install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/ml_kem/ml_kem_ref/params.c`, which only initializes size and parameter constants for the ML-KEM 512/768/1024 variants via small helper functions. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior in this target file.

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      "severity": "none",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `aws-lc/third_party/jitterentropy/jitterentropy-gcd.h`, which is a small C header exposing GCD-related function prototypes and a simple assignment macro for the jitterentropy component. I checked it for install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.",
      "severity": "none",
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      "severity": "none",
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