Re: possible bug in IPsec encryption/decryption

Dimitris Syrivelis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.routing.click
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Hi Øivind,

To my knowledge the AES that is used is a 16-byte block cipher, so it only
works with multiples of 16 bytes. Moreover, i think the code is appropriately
padding packets to be multiple of 16 bytes. Have you removed the padding code,
or there is a bug there?

Regards,

Dimitris

> Hi,
> When using the IPSEC encryption and esp/desp  (in click 2.01) packets 
> seemed to be corrupted when  the packet length was a multiple of 8 
> but not 16.  I increased the BLKS to 16 ensuring that all packets are 
> multiple of 16, which solved the problem.  Given that the code 
> contains a special logic for the case describe, my guess is a bug, 
> but I have not tried to find the possible bug.
> Regards
> Øivind
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