crypto: drbg - HMAC-SHA1 DRBG has crypto strength of 128 bits
authorStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Sun, 6 Jul 2014 00:26:37 +0000 (02:26 +0200)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tue, 8 Jul 2014 13:18:25 +0000 (21:18 +0800)
commit5b635e280efce5b735042c7ffa2487c4ba8fb4bf
tree5ffa7a25792074c99f5f2b2b011a283045ab5594
parent27e4de2bd1804c24e3e517dd54026c1f60e8fe27
crypto: drbg - HMAC-SHA1 DRBG has crypto strength of 128 bits

The patch corrects the security strength of the HMAC-SHA1 DRBG to 128
bits. This strength defines the size of the seed required for the DRBG.
Thus, the patch lowers the seeding requirement from 256 bits to 128 bits
for HMAC-SHA1.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
crypto/drbg.c