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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:32:57 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: SIMD SHA-crypt, etc.

On 2015-02-24 13:17, jfoug@....net wrote:
> 
> ---- Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 09:34:06AM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
>> 
>> I notice that many are already updated, but many are not.
>> 
>> HMAC-SHA384 fails self-test with multiple threads:
> 
> Yes, this is a known issue in the new code. I have stared at it a
> long time (...)   Magnum has also stared at it

I stared a bit more and the goat died. The problem was that (in our
code) SHA384 output buffers need to be sized as for SHA512 (I think due
to optimizations). Same goes for SHA224 vs. SHA256.

magnum

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