Sean Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
    > --------------------------------------
    > Type: Technical
    > Reported by: Michael Bowler <[email protected]>

    > Section: 4

    > Original Text
    > -------------
    > In AUTH_AES_GMAC, the AH Authentication Data field consists of the IV
    > and the Authentication Tag, as shown in Figure 5.  Unlike the usual
    > AH case, the Authentication Data field contains both an input to the
    > authentication algorithm (the IV) and the output of the
    > authentication algorithm (the tag).  No padding is required in the
    > Authentication Data field, because its length is a multiple of 64
    > bits.

    > Corrected Text
    > --------------
    > In AUTH_AES_GMAC, the AH Authentication Data field consists of the IV
    > and the Authentication Tag, as shown in Figure 5.  Unlike the usual
    > AH case, the Authentication Data field contains both an input to the
    > authentication algorithm (the IV) and the output of the
    > authentication algorithm (the tag).  In IPv6, padding of 4 octets is
    > required to bring the AH header to a multiple of 64-bits.  No padding
    > is required for IPv4.

I see. Sounds reasonable.
Too bad the AES_GMAC designers didn't truncate more.

--
Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works


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