From: Pascal Van Leeuwen <pvanleeuwen@verimatrix.com> To: "linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net> Subject: AEAD question Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:55:39 +0000 Message-ID: <MN2PR20MB29734143B4A5F5E418D55001CAC40@MN2PR20MB2973.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> (raw) Eric & Herbert, I noticed the testmgr fuzz tester generating (occasionally, see previous mail) tests cases with authsize=0 for the AEAD ciphers. I'm wondering if that is intentional. Or actually, I'm wondering whether that should be considered a legal case. To me, it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to do *authenticated* encryption and then effectively throw away the authentication result ... (it's just a waste of power and/or cycles) The reason for this question is that supporting this requires some specific workaround in my driver (yet again). And yes, I'm aware of the fact that I can advertise I don't support zero length authentication tags, but then probably/likely testmgr will punish me for that instead. Regards, Pascal van Leeuwen Silicon IP Architect, Multi-Protocol Engines @ Verimatrix www.insidesecure.com
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