On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 12:49:25PM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2016, 19:42:45 CET schrieb Herbert Xu: > > Hi Herbert, > > > > Hmm, I don't see the code that copies the AAD over. Did I miss it? > > You do not miss it. As I mentioned in a previous email, I would like: > > - to include the current patch around the tag now as it has been on the > mailing list for a long time -- that current patch fixes the superfluous > copying of the tag value. That fix of the tag handling is unrelated to any > AAD > logic. However, it changes the user-visible memory structure and therefore > the > user interface (i.e. during decryption, the returned data is smaller than it > used to be and during encryption, less data is required as input). > > - the AAD handling with the copying over of data shall come in the next > development cycle for 4.10. That change is not user visible as it does not > change the memory structure and thus the user interface. Also, the AAD change > is unrelated to the tag change provided with this patch.
OK, thanks for explaining this Stephan. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
