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Re: implicit padding for authentication
In message <v03110716b0dc455a0805@[128.89.0.110]>, Stephen Kent writes:
> However, I'd also like to know what implementors are doing now, since
> testing has been ongoing for some time and people have interoperated on the
> basis of some common interpretation of implicit padding.
Simple. Since MD5 and SHA1 define their own padding algorithms, treat them
has having a block-size of 1 byte for IPsec implicit padding purposes; in
other words, no implicit padding is required for these algorithms.
--
Harald Koch <chk@utcc.utoronto.ca>
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