[PATCH v4 0/8] Add MAC authentication support to the Babel protocol

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Mar 22 04:38:50 CET 2021


On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 11:15:24PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
> 
> > This series adds MAC authentication support to the Babel protocol as specified
> > in in RFC8967:
> >
> > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8967
> >
> > I have performed basic interoperability testing between this implementation and
> > the current babeld HMAC implementation[1]. The two implementations were able to
> > successfully exchange authenticated messages with both HMAC-256 and Blake2s-256
> > keys.
> >
> > Given the above, and the fact that the RFC was finally published at the the
> > IETF, I believe this series is ready for merging (subject to review, of course).
> > For those wanting to test the code, a version of Bird with this series applied
> > is available on Github[2] for easy consumption.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/jech/babeld/pull/52
> > [2] https://github.com/tohojo/bird/tree/babel-mac-04
> >
>
> Ping? Anyone had a chance to take a look at this? :)

Hi

Sorry for late response. Now with v2.0.8 released i plan to focus on
merging this and other pending patches.

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