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Re: test vectors for HMAC-SHA-1 - Test Data and Bad News
what version of cylink's code are you using NOW and do you know of a
reference (like a URL) from Cylink on this?
At 03:41 PM 2/13/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Edward Russell wrote:
>> At the interoperability event in Dallas, it appears that
>> the BSAFE SHA is incompatible with the CYLINK SHA.
>>
>> In addition it appears that
>> BSAFE Diffie-Hellman is incompatible with the CYLINK Diffie-Hellman
>
>Both these problems are related to the underlying representation of numbers
>in the Cylink library as LSB first as opposed to MSB first. All numbers on
>the wire should be MSB first, they were not.
>
>These problems will be taken care of in the next release of Cylink's crypto
>library and will be in the next release of cisco's free ISAKMP reference
>implementation.
>
> Dan
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