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Review rev_a53aaebb320e4b40b6478d15e263640e

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

Review Details

Package

aws-lc-sys@0.41.0

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 the ARM assembly implementation of `bignum_montmul_p256k1_alt`, which appears to be a straight Montgomery multiplication routine for secp256k1 field arithmetic. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation/packing, and persistence tampering, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/x509/x509_v3.c`, which implements X.509 extension helper routines for counting, searching, adding, deleting, and constructing extensions. I found no concrete supply-chain or malicious indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or hidden subprocess execution. Reviewed aws-lc/include/openssl/mem.h, a public API header that only declares memory, string, and compatibility allocation helpers. 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 the internal timer implementation in aws-lc's bundled jitterentropy source. The file is a local timer/thread helper for entropy collection, and I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators: no install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential or environment scraping, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence mechanisms. Reviewed the target x86-64 assembly implementation of `bignum_mul_8_16_alt`, which is a straight-line multi-precision multiplication routine using register arithmetic and ABI shims only. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential or environment access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other hidden payload execution paths, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators.

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    {
      "path": "aws-lc/third_party/s2n-bignum/s2n-bignum-imported/arm/secp256k1/bignum_montmul_p256k1_alt.S",
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      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "path": "aws-lc/crypto/x509/x509_v3.c",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/x509/x509_v3.c`, which implements X.509 extension helper routines for counting, searching, adding, deleting, and constructing extensions. I found no concrete supply-chain or malicious indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or hidden subprocess execution.",
      "severity": "none",
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    {
      "path": "aws-lc/include/openssl/mem.h",
      "hash": "blake3:a62d4ff9fc5ae4879b15ce2d01a45c3fb4a049865572ae1b7c9c60b5e3c8480d",
      "summary": "Reviewed aws-lc/include/openssl/mem.h, a public API header that only declares memory, string, and compatibility allocation helpers. 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.",
      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "path": "aws-lc/third_party/jitterentropy/jitterentropy-library/src/jitterentropy-timer.c",
      "hash": "blake3:5ecd6da3ed89ac333e7d97132c7d0c392f5655ab5f00abeb821af09c06934015",
      "summary": "Reviewed the internal timer implementation in aws-lc's bundled jitterentropy source. The file is a local timer/thread helper for entropy collection, and I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators: no install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential or environment scraping, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence mechanisms.",
      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "path": "aws-lc/third_party/s2n-bignum/s2n-bignum-imported/x86_att/fastmul/bignum_mul_8_16_alt.S",
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      "summary": "Reviewed the target x86-64 assembly implementation of `bignum_mul_8_16_alt`, which is a straight-line multi-precision multiplication routine using register arithmetic and ABI shims only. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential or environment access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other hidden payload execution paths, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators.",
      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
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