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authorStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>2014-07-06 02:26:37 +0200
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2014-07-08 21:18:25 +0800
commitf9f120f3e929db1d70d14f3588188850ae6c56e5 (patch)
tree71f819b9abf5abe9f539663e6bd7c4462845d4f9
parent5884c4a24f87112b71e3d7a67d37180a49435d9d (diff)
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crypto: drbg - HMAC-SHA1 DRBG has crypto strength of 128 bits
The patch corrects the security strength of the HMAC-SHA1 DRBG to 128 bits. This strength defines the size of the seed required for the DRBG. Thus, the patch lowers the seeding requirement from 256 bits to 128 bits for HMAC-SHA1. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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-rw-r--r--crypto/drbg.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/drbg.c b/crypto/drbg.c
index a76b3cb0..84478cb8 100644
--- a/crypto/drbg.c
+++ b/crypto/drbg.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static const struct drbg_core drbg_cores[] = {
#endif /* CONFIG_CRYPTO_DRBG_HASH */
#ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO_DRBG_HMAC
{
- .flags = DRBG_HMAC | DRBG_STRENGTH256,
+ .flags = DRBG_HMAC | DRBG_STRENGTH128,
.statelen = 20, /* block length of cipher */
.max_addtllen = 35,
.max_bits = 19,