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Date:      Sun, 19 Aug 2018 18:40:09 +0000
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        "Michael Tuexen" <tuexen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cem@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r338053 - head/sys/netinet
Message-ID:  <A9D078CC-8E1A-4541-A21C-32FD88115563@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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On 19 Aug 2018, at 17:08, Michael Tuexen wrote:

>> On 19. Aug 2018, at 18:35, Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen@freebsd.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Author: tuexen
>>> Date: Sun Aug 19 14:56:10 2018
>>> New Revision: 338053
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/338053
>>>
>> How was this particular keyed hash function construction chosen?
>> (Yes, I see it is the same initial TSN, but how was that selected?)
> You mean:
>
> Why is FreeBSD using the MD5 with secret suffix as the keyed hash 
> function?
>
> I don't know, I have not implemented that.
>
> However, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6528#section-3 suggests this,
> OpenBSD uses a similar computation, but uses SHA512 instead of MD5, 
> NetBSD
> seem to use the same computation as FreeBSD.
> I guess using MD5 was an acceptable choice at the time the choice was 
> made.

I am so happy we have a version control system where you could hopefully 
find out if the original committer left a decent commit message.. takes 
less than 60 seconds ..  
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=82122

/bz



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