Hi Hannes, On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> wrote: > IPv6 you cannot touch anymore. The hashing algorithm is part of uAPI. > You don't want to give people new IPv6 addresses with the same stable > secret (across reboots) after a kernel upgrade. Maybe they lose > connectivity then and it is extra work?
Ahh, too bad. So it goes. > The bpf hash stuff can be changed during this merge window, as it is > not yet in a released kernel. Albeit I would probably have preferred > something like sha256 here, which can be easily replicated by user > space tools (minus the problem of patching out references to not > hashable data, which must be zeroed). Oh, interesting, so time is of the essence then. Do you want to handle changing the new eBPF code to something not-SHA1 before it's too late, as part of a new patchset that can fast track itself to David? And then I can preserve my large series for the next merge window. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
