Re: unused SCTP config var SCTP_HMAC_NONE?

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> ===== SCTP_HMAC_NONE
> net/sctp/Kconfig:68:config SCTP_HMAC_NONE
> 
>   nothing seems to refer to that.
> 

This has been there since the beginning.  My guess is that it's for
testing only.  This allows SCTP to not compute an hmac over the cookie
and thus skip cookie verification.  It's not really useful for production
systems, but it might be useful during test.

-vlad

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