From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Ken Goldman <kgold@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Van Leeuwen, Pascal" <pvanleeuwen@rambus.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Ken Goldman <kgold@linux.ibm.com>,
Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net,
zohar@linux.ibm.com, dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com,
jmorris@namei.org, serge@hallyn.com,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: sm3 - add a new alias name sm3-256
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:36:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200210183620.GA137710@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9683f764-c8c7-e123-b5f6-4f155bd1b10b@linux.ibm.com>
[Please fix your email client; you dropped all non-list recipients from Cc,
and I had to manually add them back...]
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 01:02:42PM -0500, Ken Goldman wrote:
> On 2/10/2020 12:01 PM, Van Leeuwen, Pascal wrote:
> > Well, the current specification surely doesn't define anything else and is
> > already over a decade old. So what would be the odds that they add a
> > different blocksize variant_now_ AND still call that SM3-something?
>
> I just got a note from a cryptographer who said there were discussions last
> year about a future SM3 with 512 bit output.
>
> Given that, why not plan ahead and use sm3-256? Is there any downside?
> Is the cost any more than 4 bytes in some source code?
If renaming sm3 to sm3-256 in the crypto API, no. If adding sm3-256 alongside
sm3, then yes there is a cost to that because from the crypto API's perspective
they will be separate algorithms that each need to be registered, tested, etc.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-10 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-07 9:22 [PATCH] IMA hash algorithm supports sm3-256 Tianjia Zhang
2020-02-07 9:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] crypto: sm3 - add a new alias name sm3-256 Tianjia Zhang
2020-02-10 3:17 ` Eric Biggers
[not found] ` <b7ce247b-ede1-4b01-bb11-894c042679e1.tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
2020-02-10 12:06 ` 回复：[PATCH " Tianjia Zhang
2020-02-10 16:30 ` [PATCH " Ken Goldman
2020-02-10 16:39 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <7a496bb15f264eab920bf081338d67af@MN2PR20MB2973.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
2020-02-10 17:01 ` Van Leeuwen, Pascal
2020-02-10 17:39 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-10 18:02 ` Ken Goldman
2020-02-10 18:36 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
[not found] ` <3b21122352a44cb9a20030a32f07e38a@MN2PR20MB2973.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
2020-02-11 7:56 ` Van Leeuwen, Pascal
2020-02-07 9:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] ima: add sm3-256 algorithm to hash algorithm configuration list Tianjia Zhang
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