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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: add key wrapping block chaining mode
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:06:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150422060608.GA7987@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6218629.uO4632Hmli@myon.chronox.de>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 06:36:59AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> +	if (req->iv)
> +		ret = crypto_memneq(block.A, req->iv, SEMIBSIZE);
> +	else
> +		ret = crypto_memneq(block.A, default_iv, SEMIBSIZE);

No we don't allow variable-sized IVs.  Either you should always
have an IV, or never have one (i.e., make it zero-sized).

If you want to accomodate both, then provide kw(aes) as the full
IV version and then add a rfc3394(kw(aes)) on top of it.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-22  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-22  4:36 [PATCH] crypto: add key wrapping block chaining mode Stephan Mueller
2015-04-22  5:48 ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-22 12:44   ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-23  1:39     ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-23  1:40       ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-22  5:53 ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-22  6:13   ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-22 12:23     ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-22 14:11       ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-23  1:37         ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-23  1:33       ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-23  1:39         ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-23  1:46           ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-23  1:58             ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-23  2:03               ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-23  2:51             ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-23  2:55               ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-23 13:42                 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-23 23:21                   ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-24  0:22                     ` Stephan Mueller
2015-04-24  0:24                       ` Herbert Xu
2015-04-22  6:06 ` Herbert Xu [this message]

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