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diff --git a/security/nss/cmd/pk11gcmtest/tests/README b/security/nss/cmd/pk11gcmtest/tests/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9131b5231 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/nss/cmd/pk11gcmtest/tests/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The GCM test vectors in this directory were downloaded from the NIST +Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) website +(http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/) on Mar 29, 2013 using the URL +http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/mac/gcmtestvectors.zip. + +The original test files are about 3 MB each, which are too big to +include in the NSS source tree. I observed the following patterns in +the test vectors: +1. Taglen changes in a cycle of 7: 128, 120, 112, 104, 96, 64, 32. +2. Then, AADlen changes in a cycle of 5: 0, 128, 160, 384, 720. + +To reduce the number of test vectors, I kept Taglen = 128, 96 from +each cycle of 7, and kept AADlen = 0, 720, 160 from each two cycles +of 10. |