From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: IPSec hmac(sha256) truncation bits length
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:38:34 -0600
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:28:26 +0200
Nicolae Rosia <nicolae.rosia@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Nicolae Rosia <nicolae.rosia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to understand why icv_truncbits is set to 96 for
> > hmac(sha256) in xfrm_algo.c because
> > RFC4868 [1] says that the truncation length for HMAC-SHA256 should be 128.

See http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/6767

Kim