Re: [PATCH RFC v1 2/3] ipv6: move from sha1 to blake2s in address calculation

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On 1/13/22, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The question is not whether but when we can/will change this.
>
> SHA-1 is broken and should be removed at *some* point, so unless the
> feature itself is going to be obsolete, its implementation will need
> to switch to a PRF that fulfils the requirements in RFC7217 once SHA-1
> ceases to do so.
>
> And I should also point out that the current implementation does not
> even use SHA-1 correctly, as it omits the finalization step. This may
> or may not matter in practice, but it deviates from crypto best
> practices, as well as from RFC7217
>
> I already pointed out to Jason (in private) that the PRF does not need
> to be based on a cryptographic hash, so as far as I can tell, siphash
> would be a suitable candidate here as well, and I already switched the
> TCP fastopen code to that in the past. But SHA-1 definitely has to go.
>

Correction: this should be a cryptographically secure. That's part of
the point of moving away from SHA-1 of course. But fortunately,
siphash *is*
considered to be cryptographically secure. Whether you want blake2s's
keyed mode or siphash doesn't really matter to me. I thought the
former's API mapped a bit neater here.