Re: AES_XCBC?

f masood via dev-tech-crypto <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 7:51:13 PM UTC+5, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> I'm looking at implementing AES_XCBC using NSS.  That is:
> 
> AES-XCBC-MAC-96: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3566#section-4
> AES-XCBC-MAC-PRF: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4434
> 
> (the latter adds a recursive rule for building a fixed size key from a
> variable key)
> 
> reading NSS's "documentation", I've turned up AES_MAC, but I'm
> guessing that that is just implementing the primitive
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC-MAC using AES.
> 
> Is there anything else, or will I be needing to implement things by
> wrapping this primitive? (and if so, was there a test I could look at
> for the existing code?)
> 
> Andrew

What version of NSS are you targeting ?
I dont think that currently NSS has support of this XCBC, so you'll have to do changes and then compile ?
Whats your scenario? I mean are you going to use this cihersuite for ipsec application ? 
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