Re: Crypto API and keyed non-HMAC digest algorithms / Michael MIC

[James Morris]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Clay Haapala wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, James Morris uttered the following:
> > Agreed.  I really wanted to keep digests 'pure', and not implement a
> > setkey method, but it seems like the simplest way at this stage.
> > 
> I had the same thought in my attempt at adding CRC32C to the crypto
> routines, that what was needed was "digests + setkey".  But I didn't
> want to add the key baggage to digests, and so created a new alg type
> (CHKSUM), with pretty much identical code to digest, but with a
> modified init and a new setkey interface.
> 
> So, we could modify digests now, or perhaps Jouni and I could combine
> our code into a new KEYED_DIGEST type and leave digests 'pure'.
> What's best?

I think that adding a setkey method for digests is the simplest approach.


- James
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James Morris
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