From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: djenkins@mvista.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does ESP support 64 bit sequence numbering for authentication hash ?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:09:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090901120915.GA12646@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090115055644.GA30626@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:56:44PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Dean Jenkins <djenkins@mvista.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does ESP support 64 bit sequence numbering for use with the
> > authentication HMAC ?
>
> We don't support 64-bit sequence numbers yet. If you look at
> struct xfrm_replay_state which is where we store the sequence
> number internally you'll find that it uses u32s.
>
> Patches for 64-bit support are welcome of course.
>
Is there actually anybody working on 64-bit sequence number support?
If not, I'd start to look at it.
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2009-01-15 5:56 ` Does ESP support 64 bit sequence numbering for authentication hash ? Herbert Xu
2009-09-01 12:09 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2009-09-01 12:18 ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-01 12:23 ` Alex Badea
2009-09-01 12:42 ` Steffen Klassert
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