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On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 02:56:37PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> This conversion was following the existing check (PAGE_SIZE / 8), and
> not via an analysis of alg.digestsize users. Let me double-check. For
> predefined stuff, it looks like the largest is:
> 
> SKEIN1024_DIGEST_BIT_SIZE/8 == 128

This should be removed.  We shouldn't allow generic or new crypto
algorithms in staging.

Thanks,
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