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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:59:59 +0100
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>, 
 Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
 Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: BPF hash algo (Re: Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] random:
 use SipHash in place of MD5)

On 12/23/2016 11:59 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 11:04 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 12/22/2016 05:59 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2016-12-22 at 08:07 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
[...]
>>> The hashing is not a proper sha1 neither, unfortunately. I think that
>>> is why it will have a custom implementation in iproute2?
>>
>> Still trying to catch up on this admittedly bit confusing thread. I
>> did run automated tests over couple of days comparing the data I got
>> from fdinfo with the one from af_alg and found no mismatch on the test
>> cases varying from min to max possible program sizes. In the process
>> of testing, as you might have seen on netdev, I found couple of other
>> bugs in bpf code along the way and fixed them up as well. So my question,
>> do you or Andy or anyone participating in claiming this have any
>> concrete data or test cases that suggests something different? If yes,
>> I'm very curious to hear about it and willing fix it up, of course.
>> When I'm back from pto I'll prep and cook up my test suite to be
>> included into the selftests/bpf/, should have done this initially,
>> sorry about that. I'll also post something to expose the alg, that
>> sounds fine to me.
>
> Looking into your code closer, I noticed that you indeed seem to do the
> finalization of sha-1 by hand by aligning and padding the buffer
> accordingly and also patching in the necessary payload length.
>
> Apologies for my side for claiming that this is not correct sha1
> output, I was only looking at sha_transform and its implementation and
> couldn't see the padding and finalization round with embedding the data
> length in there and hadn't thought of it being done manually.
>
> Anyway, is it difficult to get the sha finalization into some common
> code library? It is not very bpf specific and crypto code reviewers
> won't find it there at all.

Yes, sure, I'll rework it that way (early next year when I'm back if
that's fine with you).

Thanks,
Daniel

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