Re: CCM/GCM implementation defect

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 01:45:34PM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> Adding a second template for the correct implementation is
> probaply the only thing that we can do if we don't want to
> break backwards compatibility. But maybe we can add a warning
> to the old implementation, such that users notice that they
> use a broken version.

If we are going to do a warning I think the place to do it would
be in xfrm_algo.c.  We could add an insecure/warning flag and if
then print a warning if said algorithm is used.

Cheers,
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