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Review rev_f1ae746ad9e34d19ab4486ced3196676

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

Reviewed this hand-written x86-64 assembly routine for P-384 modular subtraction. It appears to implement only local bigint arithmetic with ABI shims and stack-note metadata; I found no concrete signs of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in the target file. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/ecdh_extra/ecdh_extra.c`, which implements `ECDH_compute_key` by deriving a shared secret and optionally passing it through a caller-supplied KDF or copying it to the output buffer. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other supply-chain compromise behavior in this file. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/aes/aes.c`, which is a small AES dispatch wrapper that selects between hardware, vpaes, and software implementations for encrypt/decrypt and key setup. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: no install hooks, network or exfiltration logic, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior. Reviewed this header, which only defines NIST P-curve method types, feature macros, and function prototypes for field/point/scalar operations. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file, and no install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior was present. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/kdf/kbkdf.c`, which implements a FIPS KBKDF-Counter HMAC key-derivation routine with input validation, HMAC iteration, and zeroization on failure. I checked for install-time execution, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.

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  "summary": "Reviewed this hand-written x86-64 assembly routine for P-384 modular subtraction. It appears to implement only local bigint arithmetic with ABI shims and stack-note metadata; I found no concrete signs of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in the target file.\nReviewed `aws-lc/crypto/ecdh_extra/ecdh_extra.c`, which implements `ECDH_compute_key` by deriving a shared secret and optionally passing it through a caller-supplied KDF or copying it to the output buffer. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other supply-chain compromise behavior in this file.\nReviewed `aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/aes/aes.c`, which is a small AES dispatch wrapper that selects between hardware, vpaes, and software implementations for encrypt/decrypt and key setup. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: no install hooks, network or exfiltration logic, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior.\nReviewed this header, which only defines NIST P-curve method types, feature macros, and function prototypes for field/point/scalar operations. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file, and no install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior was present.\nReviewed `aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/kdf/kbkdf.c`, which implements a FIPS KBKDF-Counter HMAC key-derivation routine with input validation, HMAC iteration, and zeroization on failure. I checked for install-time execution, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.",
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    {
      "path": "aws-lc/third_party/s2n-bignum/x86_att/p384/bignum_sub_p384.S",
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      "summary": "Reviewed this hand-written x86-64 assembly routine for P-384 modular subtraction. It appears to implement only local bigint arithmetic with ABI shims and stack-note metadata; I found no concrete signs of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in the target file.",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/ecdh_extra/ecdh_extra.c`, which implements `ECDH_compute_key` by deriving a shared secret and optionally passing it through a caller-supplied KDF or copying it to the output buffer. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other supply-chain compromise behavior in this file.",
      "severity": "none",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/aes/aes.c`, which is a small AES dispatch wrapper that selects between hardware, vpaes, and software implementations for encrypt/decrypt and key setup. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: no install hooks, network or exfiltration logic, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior.",
      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
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      "path": "aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/ec/ec_nistp.h",
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      "severity": "none",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/kdf/kbkdf.c`, which implements a FIPS KBKDF-Counter HMAC key-derivation routine with input validation, HMAC iteration, and zeroization on failure. I checked for install-time execution, 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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