netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: Fix key lengths for rfc3686(ctr(aes))

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:05:37 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tushar Gohad <tgohad@...sta.com>
Cc:	Joy Latten <latten@...tin.ibm.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: Fix key lengths for rfc3686(ctr(aes))

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:36:20PM -0700, Tushar Gohad wrote:
>
> Fix the min and max bit lengths for AES-CTR (RFC3686) keys.
> The number of bits in key spec is the key length (128/256)
> plus 32 bits of nonce.
>
> This change takes care of the "Invalid key length" errors
> reported by setkey when specifying 288 bit keys for aes-ctr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Gohad <tgohad@...sta.com>

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html