svn commit: r338053 - head/sys/netinet

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 19 Aug 2018, at 17:08, Michael Tuexen wrote:

>> On 19. Aug 2018, at 18:35, Conrad Meyer <cem at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at 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