Re: [PATCH 1/1]: Add countersize to CTR

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:26:29PM -0500, Joy Latten wrote:
>
> +	err = crypto_attr_u32(tb[4], &countersize);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto out_put_alg;
> +
>  	/* verify size of nonce + iv + counter */
>  	err = -EINVAL;
> -	if ((noncesize + ivsize) >= alg->cra_blocksize)
> +	if (((noncesize + ivsize) > alg->cra_blocksize) ||
> +	    (countersize > alg->cra_blocksize))
>  		goto out_put_alg;

Probably should check whether

	noncesize + ivsize + countersize == blocksize

if

	noncesize + ivsize < blocksize

Actually let's also require that countersize >= 4 as otherwise
wrapping will be a problem.  This would also weed out stream
algorithms but we wouldn't want to apply CTR to them anyway.

Otherwise this looks pretty good to me.  Thanks Joy!
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