netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: fix hmac(sha256) truncation length

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Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:41:10 -0500
From:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Wouters <pwouters@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Martin Willi <martin@...ongswan.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: fix hmac(sha256) truncation length

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:12:37PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Commit bc74b0c8af17458ecae77f725e507ab5fd100105 added proper hmac sha384
>> and sha512 variants with truncation lengths of 192 and 256 respectively,
>> per RFC4868:
>
> No, it was done deliberately to maintain backwards compatibility.
> Userspace should set the truncbits explicitly from now on.

Okay, I suspected that might be the case. No plans to ever invert that, 
so that userspace has to explicitly set the shorter truncbits for 
backwards compat?

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com.


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