From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unused SCTP config var SCTP_HMAC_NONE?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:02:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EA6A0C.1010503@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904180908170.499@localhost.localdomain>
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> === SCTP_HMAC_NONE
> net/sctp/Kconfig:68:config SCTP_HMAC_NONE
>
> nothing seems to refer to that.
>
This has been there since the beginning. My guess is that it's for
testing only. This allows SCTP to not compute an hmac over the cookie
and thus skip cookie verification. It's not really useful for production
systems, but it might be useful during test.
-vlad
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 13:08 unused SCTP config var SCTP_HMAC_NONE? Robert P. J. Day
2009-04-19 0:02 ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
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