Recent MAC improvements

[Matt Anderson]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:21:32AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> > These changes need testing on as many platforms as possible. In particular
> > we are interested in the following corner cases:
> > 
> > - Old OpenSSL version (0.9.5ish)
> > - Testing between big and little endian machines (i386 vs. sparc for example)
> > - Testing between previous OpenSSH versions and -current
> > - Testing on strict alignment architectures like Alpha and Itanium
> 
>  - Interoperability against non-OpenSSH implementations

I built the openssh-SNAP-20070613.tar.gz on a RHEL5 Itanium system and
was able to successfully connect to an SSH.com server running on a
Tru64 Alpha system (SSH-2.0-3.2.0 on v5.1B of Tru64.)

I also was able to use umac-64 at openssh.org when connecting over
localhost to my Itanium system.

-matt