netdev - Re: CCM/GCM implementation defect

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Message-Id: <20150422.233658.2254137104297879050.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:36:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	pwouters@...hat.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CCM/GCM implementation defect

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:26:20 +0800

> In order to fix this without breaking backwards compatibility,
> my plan is to introduce new templates such as rfc4106v2 which
> implement the RFC correctly.  The existing templates will be
> retained so that current users aren't broken by the fix.
> 
> Once the kernel side is complete we could then get the user-space
> implementors to update their tools to request for the new v2
> templates.
> 
> Comments?

At first glance this seems like a very reasonable approach.
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