unused SCTP config var SCTP_HMAC_NONE?

unused SCTP config var SCTP_HMAC_NONE?

[Robert P. J. Day]

=== SCTP_HMAC_NONE
net/sctp/Kconfig:68:config SCTP_HMAC_NONE

  nothing seems to refer to that.

rday
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Re: unused SCTP config var SCTP_HMAC_NONE?

[Vlad Yasevich]

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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