Re: [ACRYPTO] new release of asynchronous crrypto layer.

[Herbert Xu]

Hi Evgeniy:

Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * IPsec ESP4 port to acrypto

I noticed a bug in the ESP IV processing.  When you do ESP asynchronously,
you can no longer use the last block of the previous packet as the IV of
the next.  This is because the next packet may have started processing
before the last packet has even been finalised.

A simple solution is to generate a random IV.

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