#avr-depo AVR Deterministic Embedded Password Oracle facilitates password generation on an embedded AVR platform (e.g. Arduino) using a master password provided by the user. Because it is embedded in hardware, AVR-depo provides trusted password input unlike online/PC equivalents which cannot avoid the risk of master password comprimise via trojan.

##overview avr-depo helps mitigate "password hell" by generating derived passwords using a master password combined with an alias and a name. Usually name will be the name of a particular service or website. The alias can be used to maintain different accounts/passwords for the same service/website using different identities. For example, one could use a 'work' alias for all work related passwords (alias can be left blank, which could be considered the 'default' identity). Deterministic algorithms are used for password generation such that given the same master password, alias and name, avr-depo will generate the same output password. This means that the passwords are not stored anywhere, but remain accessible to only the person who knows the master password.

##target platforms Only the Arduino platform is currently supported.

##project status The arduino firmware is currently only a proof of concept. Some planned features are missing and the code has not been audited for vulnerabilities.

I'm currently working on creating a PCB prototype from my breadboarded prototype.

##technical details

• master key generation: PBKDF2 is used to transform the master password into key material for use by the password generation algorithms. The salt and PBKDF2 rounds parameters are configurable (see the configuration section). The PBKDF2 source code (src/crypto_pbkdf2.c) was ported from the openssl implementation.

• password generation: the algorithms all consume the key bytes produced by PBKDF2 in order to make pseudo-random choices which lead to a password satisfying the parameters of the chosen algorithm. When making a random choice, four bytes of master key are consumed. In certain cases the four bytes will be discarded if they would cause modulo bias (see this and src/rand_source.c#rand_source_uint). Different algorithms will use different amounts of key data.

##technical details on password schemas Presently only two password generation schemas have been implemented, but many more are planned. The implementations can be found in src/schema.c.

• "hex": this schema converts generated key bytes to their hex representations. One byte of master key is consumed per two characters of output.
• "pw0": consumes generated key bytes to make random choices leading to the generation of a password with at least one upper case letter, at least one lower case letter, at least one symbol and at least one number. This schema consumes at least four bytes of master key per character of output. Additionally, a number of bytes are consumed to decide how many of each character class will be represented and to shuffle the different classes together.

##configuration This code is not ready for the end user, but if you want to try it out anyway you should configure the PBKDF2 settings in src/avr-depo-config.h. Don't consider the settings there to be 'secure', they will be set to values which I find convenient/useful for my development of avr-depo.

##building build instructions coming soon...

##license GPLv3. See LICENSE or the given URL for details.