[RFC PATCH 0/7] EAX transform

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri Jul 19 01:29:04 BST 2013


Ian Jackson writes ("[RFC PATCH 0/7] EAX transform"):
> Here is another RFC series for review.  Here, I provide a new
> transform using EAX, Serpent (and SHA512 to hash the DH key).
> 
>  1/7 serpent: const-correct
>  2/7 crypto: Copy an AES (Rijndael) implementation into tree
>  3/7 EAX: provide an implementation of EAX
>  4/7 transform: split out transform-common.h
>  5/7 transform: Allow DH to set the key size
>  6/7 transform: Pass a direction flag to the transform
>  7/7 transform: Provide Serpment-EAX transform

This list is wrong.  There are eight patches, including:
   7/8 crypto: Copy a SHA512 implementation into tree
and the last one should be 8/8.

> Most of these are quite uninteresting, but the final patch could do
> with some proper review.

The patch that could do with a proper review is
>  8/8 transform: Provide Serpment-EAX transform

Sorry,
Ian.



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