Re: [GNU Crypto] Small problem with HMac

[Raif S. Naffah]

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On Friday 10 January 2003 22:07, Casey Marshall wrote:
> Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> | On Friday 10 January 2003 18:29, Casey Marshall wrote:
> |>Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> |>| On Thursday 09 January 2003 23:22, Casey Marshall wrote:
> |>|>...
> |>Going through the test case attached, I also noticed that HMac also
> |>doesn't handle keys larger than the block size properly...
> |
> | this is because section 3 in rfc-2104 reads:
> |
> | "
> | 3. Keys
> |
> |    The key for HMAC can be of any length (keys longer than B bytes
> | are first hashed using H).
>
> That is the part I was referring to...

i see.  yes indeed.


i'm in the process of integrating all this code and one additional test 
case into the cvs and build.  i should have a 1.1pre3 shortly.


cheers;
rsn
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