Allow setting CTR width via string

Prohibit very small counter widths (under 4 bytes), since they lead
to trivial keystream reuse.

Add tests.

Fix clone which always returned an object with a block-wide counter.

4 files changed, 32 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.cpp b/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.cpp
index d0b44589b..99a589bb9 100644
--- a/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.cpp
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ CTR_BE::CTR_BE(BlockCipher* cipher, size_t ctr_size) :
    m_iv(m_cipher->block_size()),
    m_pad_pos(0)
    {
-   if(m_ctr_size == 0 || m_ctr_size > m_block_size)
+   if(m_ctr_size < 4 || m_ctr_size > m_block_size)
       throw Invalid_Argument("Invalid CTR-BE counter size");
    }
 
@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ void CTR_BE::key_schedule(const uint8_t key[], size_t key_len)
 
 std::string CTR_BE::name() const
    {
-   return ("CTR-BE(" + m_cipher->name() + ")");
+   if(m_ctr_size == m_block_size)
+      return ("CTR-BE(" + m_cipher->name() + ")");
+   else
+      return ("CTR-BE(" + m_cipher->name() + "," + std::to_string(m_ctr_size) + ")");
+
    }
 
 void CTR_BE::cipher(const uint8_t in[], uint8_t out[], size_t length)
diff --git a/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.h b/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.h
index 3ff63b8e5..c4c598161 100644
--- a/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.h
+++ b/src/lib/stream/ctr/ctr.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class BOTAN_PUBLIC_API(2,0) CTR_BE final : public StreamCipher
       std::string name() const override;
 
       CTR_BE* clone() const override
-         { return new CTR_BE(m_cipher->clone()); }
+         { return new CTR_BE(m_cipher->clone(), m_ctr_size); }
 
       void clear() override;
 
diff --git a/src/lib/stream/stream_cipher.cpp b/src/lib/stream/stream_cipher.cpp
index f33d68296..c0e75c0a8 100644
--- a/src/lib/stream/stream_cipher.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/stream/stream_cipher.cpp
@@ -44,12 +44,16 @@ std::unique_ptr<StreamCipher> StreamCipher::create(const std::string& algo_spec,
    const SCAN_Name req(algo_spec);
 
 #if defined(BOTAN_HAS_CTR_BE)
-   if(req.algo_name() == "CTR-BE" && req.arg_count() == 1)
+   if((req.algo_name() == "CTR-BE" || req.algo_name() == "CTR") && req.arg_count_between(1,2))
       {
       if(provider.empty() || provider == "base")
          {
-         if(auto c = BlockCipher::create(req.arg(0)))
-            return std::unique_ptr<StreamCipher>(new CTR_BE(c.release()));
+         auto cipher = BlockCipher::create(req.arg(0));
+         if(cipher)
+            {
+            size_t ctr_size = req.arg_as_integer(1, cipher->block_size());
+            return std::unique_ptr<StreamCipher>(new CTR_BE(cipher.release(), ctr_size));
+            }
          }
       }
 #endif
diff --git a/src/tests/data/stream/ctr.vec b/src/tests/data/stream/ctr.vec
index 9fddf1cfc..3eccc3cf6 100644
--- a/src/tests/data/stream/ctr.vec
+++ b/src/tests/data/stream/ctr.vec
@@ -280,6 +280,24 @@ Nonce = 88D9C46E992B27AE
 In = CD
 Out = 9D
 
+[CTR-BE(AES-128,4)]
+Key = 2B7E151628AED2A6ABF7158809CF4F3C
+Nonce = FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
+In = 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+Out = 8AF2860142F786F409307C1A3F7EAAAC597D5761063D8BAD232CB0136888AABB90B8CF63F44412CEEE802A522AB6566313C5E10652749056AD2F02CE3BBF5BEC
+
+[CTR-BE(AES-128,5)]
+Key = 2B7E151628AED2A6ABF7158809CF4F3C
+Nonce = FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
+In = 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+Out = 8AF2860142F786F409307C1A3F7EAAACE0828A20E49595A19191201820125CC1B976913097C4A3245CAB186AE3B581F173DFEE01730EBB880CB63C673CBD4FC1
+
+[CTR-BE(AES-128,6)]
+Key = 2B7E151628AED2A6ABF7158809CF4F3C
+Nonce = FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
+In = 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+Out = 8AF2860142F786F409307C1A3F7EAAAC33E25A114853DFEA903DB7B182593CB439E12B65EBFE27B2C1557F1EAD7AB52F0D42E2BB9772747085DD8C2AF5F357BB
+
 [CTR-BE(AES-128)]
 Key = 2B7E151628AED2A6ABF7158809CF4F3C
 Nonce = F0F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F9FAFBFCFDFEFF