On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:48:05PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 12:29:47PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> >
> > >> + if (req->assoclen + req->cryptlen == 0) {
> > >> + scatterwalk_map_and_copy(ctx->auth_tag, req->dst, 0, authlen,
> > >> + 1);
> > >> + return 0;
> > >> + }
> > >
> > > How can this be right? Did you enable the selftest?
> > Why not? Self tests are passed for this case.
> >
> > As per the equation given in GCM spec[1], we can see that
> > if assoclen and cryptlen is 0, then output of GCM is just E(K, Y0)
> > where Y0 = IV||(0^31)1
> > I have E(K, Y0) calculated in previous step. And copying it
> > to destination if assoclen and cryptlen is 0.
> >
> > Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> It should be E(K, Y0) ^ GHASH(0). So unless GHASH(0) == 0, your
> code doesn't work.
OK, GHASH(0) is indeed zero so I guess your code does work after
all.
Cheers,
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