linux-kernel - Re: [RFC ipsec-next] xfrm: make sha256 icv truncation length RFC-compliant

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, 23 May 2014 09:28:54 +0300
From:	Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@...escale.com>
To:	<nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Lei Xu <Lei.Xu@...escale.com>,
	Sandeep Malik <Sandeep.Malik@...escale.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC ipsec-next] xfrm: make sha256 icv truncation length RFC-compliant

On 5/22/2014 7:03 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 22/05/2014 17:10, Horia Geanta a écrit :
>> From: Lei Xu <Lei.Xu@...escale.com>
>>
>> Currently the sha256 icv truncation length is set to 96bit
>> while the length is defined as 128bit in RFC4868.
>> This may result in somer errors when working with other IPsec devices
>> with the standard truncation length.
>> Thus, change the sha256 truncation length from 96bit to 128bit.
> The patch was already proposed, but it was kept as-is for userspace
> compatibility.
>
> See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/7/431

Thanks, somehow I missed that.

So this just means bad luck for user space tools (for e.g. ipsec-tools - 
setkey, racoon - and any other PF_KEY-based tool) that AFAICT cannot 
override the default truncated icv size, right?

Thanks,
Horia


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/