netdev - Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)

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Date:	29 Jun 2016 08:10:24 -0400
From:	"George Spelvin" <linux@...encehorizons.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, linux@...encehorizons.net
Cc:	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	luto@...capital.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)

>> Also not mentioned in the documentation is that some algorithms *do*
>> have different implementations depending on key size.  SHA-2 is the
>> classic example.

> What do you mean by that? SHA has no keying at all.

In this case, the analagous property is hash size.  Sorry, I thought
that was so obvious I didn't need to say it.

Specifically, SHA2-256 (and -224) and SHA2-512 (and -384) are separate
algorithms with similar structures but deparate implementations.