[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4017] [PATCH] Implement Camellia GCM suites (RFC 6367)

Alessandro Ghedini via RT rt at openssl.org
Sat Aug 22 16:15:55 UTC 2015


On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:17:36PM +0000, Stephen Henson via RT wrote:
> On Sat Aug 22 10:21:42 2015, alessandro at ghedini.me wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > see GitHub pull request at
> > https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/374
> >
> > Which adds support for Camellia GCM and adds the correspondent TLS cipher
> > suites. Most of the code comes from the AES GCM implementation, so maybe
> > there's an opportunity for some refactoring there.
> >
> 
> Note that the AES-GCM IV generation is purely there to satisfy the FIPS
> requirements. Since Camellia doesn't have such requirements it could instead
> use the sequence number directly and remove the generation, simplifying the
> code in the process. The recently added AES-CCM code does this.

Ok. I removed the IV generation now, and everything seems to work fine (I've
also done some tests with gnutls as well), but more testing may be needed.

Cheers




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