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

[Clay Haapala]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Jouni Malinen outgrape:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:06:37PM -0500, James Morris wrote:
> 
>> I can't reproduce it now either (AFAICR, it oopsed in test_hash().
>> 
>> I suspect it may have been caused by loading tcrypt module which
>> was out of sync with the digest setkey change.
> 
> That's possible. It didn't fail in my test with an updated version
> from the BK repository either, so I would assume this issue can be
> called resolved.
> 
> Here's the digest setkey part of the previous combined patch; I'll
> send a patch for Michael MIC separately.
> 
> 
> 
> Added support for using keyed digest with an optional dit_setkey
> handler.  This does not change the behavior of the existing digest
> algorithms, but allows new ones to add setkey handler that can be
> used to initialize the algorithm with a key or seed. setkey is to be
> called after init, but before any of the update call(s).
> 
> [ ... patch omitted ... ]

OK, so I should recode CRC32C to be a variation of digest that employs
a setkey() handler, right?  Should be no problem.

Can I get to a reasonable development environment by starting with
2.6.3, and adding the patch you just sent?  Or, do I need the Michael
MIC patch, as well?
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