Re: [PATCH 3/5] xfrm: Traffic Flow Confidentiality for IPv4 ESP

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On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:10:25PM +0100, Martin Willi wrote:
> > 
> > Has this scheme been discussed on a public forum somewhere?
> 
> No, sorry, I haven't found much valuable discussion about TFC padding.
> Nothing at all how to overcome the ESPv2 padding limit.

OK.
 
> I'll re-spin the patchset with get_random_bytes(). Even if the ESPv2
> padding fallback makes TFC in this case less efficient, it shouldn't
> harm. Or do you see this differently?

Indeed I don't think we should do anything for the ESPv2 case
at all without having this discussed in an appropriate forum
first.

So please remove that part completely from your submission for
now.

Thanks,
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