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From: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha2-256 truncation
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:12:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FFE7E98.6060201@logix.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFE6B72.9030808@logix.cz>

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Michal Ludvig told me that:

> the attached trivial patch corrects the truncation size of computed 
> hashes that are used in IPsec ESP/AH packets for SHA2-256. All other 
> hash algorithms use 96 bits as well as does SuperFreeS/WAN and FreeBSD 
> also for SHA2-256. Only the native Linux sha2-256 used 128 bits what led 
>  to incompatibility with other IPsec implementations.

Oops, sorry. I sent a reversed patch originally. Please use this one 
instead.

Michal Ludvig
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--- linux-2.6.0/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c	2004-01-08 01:29:52.067261651 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0.orig/net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c	2004-01-08 01:28:38.668690081 +0100
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct xfrm_algo_desc aalg_list[]
 
 	.uinfo = {
 		.auth = {
-			.icv_truncbits = 128,
+			.icv_truncbits = 96,
 			.icv_fullbits = 256,
 		}
 	},

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-09 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09  8:50 [PATCH] sha2-256 truncation Michal Ludvig
2004-01-09 10:12 ` Michal Ludvig [this message]
2004-01-10  4:51   ` David S. Miller

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