Hello Paul, On Saturday, January 3, 2015 9:36:22 PM UTC+5:30, Paul Koning wrote: > > What is SCST?
SCST is SCSI target sub-system for linux. > > > Various crypto protocols indeed uses SHA-1 (typically in more complex form > like HMAC) for message authentication. And each of them will obviously > have some identifier for that. But that has nothing to do with CHAP. For > CHAP in iSCSI, you have to look in the iSCSI RFC, and you will find in > there only a single identifier, which is for CHAP using MD5. > Yes ,you are right. But their is some correction. In iSCSI RFC(3720) page 186 (CHAP 11.1.4) Points to RFC1994(CHAP) for the implementation of CHAP and RFC3720 also mandates initiator/targets to implement MD5 as one required option. But it does not bar the possibility of implementing another hash algorithm with CHAP. > > It would certainly be possible to define CHAP using SHA-1 (or for that > matter SHA-2) but that hasn’t been done and there hasn’t been a significant > push for it. While MD5 has issues, those do not affect its use in CHAP. > > Correct. while going through SCST target code i found it implements SHA-1.I am just experimenting, thought if their are any initiators that support SHA. > paul > Thanks and regards. Tejas V > > > On Jan 3, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Tejas vaykole <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I am looking at the SCST target code, where it looks like it supports > the SHA-1 Algorithim for message digest generation.The number assigned to > SHA-1 is '7' > > > > Thanks. > > Tejas > > > > On Monday, September 15, 2014 11:30:52 AM UTC+5:30, Uli wrote: > > >>> Tejas vaykole <[email protected]> schrieb am 11.09.2014 um 12:22 > in > > Nachricht <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am trying out with the open-iscsi initiator.I see that the initiator > uses > > > MD5 algorithm for CHAP. > > > I need help in configuring the initiator to use SHA-1 hashing > Algorithm for > > > CHAP. > > > > Whcih algorithm number has been assigned to SHA-1 for CHAP? Ic ould not > find it. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Tejas > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
