Re: [PATCH] crypto: add test vectors for skein256/512/1024

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Nov 05 2008 - 16:28:19 EST


* Jeff Garzik | 2008-11-02 20:44:40 [-0500]:

> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> I grabed them from http://www.schneier.com/skein.html. The last test
>> vector
>> (3) in every category is currently deactivated because it failed always.
>> It is unlikely that I made a type because I copy+pasted the tables + vim
>> magiced them. So maybe code may missbehave on requests lengths which are
>> not a multiple of 4 or the vectors can not be used due to some other
>> limitations that I've overseen.

Okay, that was a false positive :)
The "untouched" reference implementation outputs the same hash. The
additional information (tree, ...) is part of the third argument in
Skein_XXX_InitExt() which isn't used. So we can safely drop the third
test vector.

>
> Jeff

Sebastian
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