Re: combined mode algorithms

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On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 13:09 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:13:58PM -0500, Joy Latten (latten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > I have been reading IP Encapsulating Payload-(ESP) RFC4303 where use of
> > combined mode algorithms are mentioned and accommodated for. 
> > In trying to determine how I should handle this, I examined the
> > crypto code and could not readily recognize any combined mode
> > algorithms. Are there any current plans to implement combined mode
> > algorithms?  
> 
> I think it should be first supported by ipsec stack at least with state,
> where SA cold be configured, integrity check for the data/header is not 
> a problem after that changes are stable. sha1/encryption is a poor man's
> combined algo after all with hash data being ICV :)
> 

Ok, thanks. This helps. I can code up the infrastructure for this. I 
am thinking I will eventually need one of the algorithms to test and
complete it though. RFCs 4309 and 4106 specify ESP working with AES-CCM
and AES-GCM.

Regards,
Joy

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