Recent MAC improvements

[Iain Morgan]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 17:27:08 -0400, Matt Anderson wrote:
> 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
>

Matt,

How's the performance on Itanium using UMAC-64 versus HMAC-MD5?

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Iain Morgan