Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] crypto/krb5: Provide Kerberos 5 crypto through AEAD API

Herbert Xu
2025-01-10T10:42:41Z

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:39:27AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>
> Is it? That's entirely unclear. The algorithm should deal with inserting the
> checksum in the appropriate place. The caller should not need to know about
> that or where the checksum is or about extra bits of metadata that may need to
> be inserted (as I think the extra gssapi layer does for sunrpc).

The AEAD interface does not dictate where the authentication
tag is. Most algorithms put it at the end, but it really could
be anywhere.

Cheers,
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