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Revert "Don't include sk keys at all in KEX list" This reverts git commit f972813ecdc7bb981d25b5a63638bd158f1c8e72. The sk algorithms need to remain in the sigalgs list so that they are included in the server-sig-algs ext-info message sent by the server. RFC8308 for server-sig-algs requires that all algorithms are listed (though OpenSSH client 8.4p1 tested doesn't require that)
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:42:08 +0800
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Tech Note 0005
Minimizing Code Space
Tom St Denis

Introduction
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Tweaking...

You can disable whole classes of algorithms on the command line with the LTC_NO_* defines.  From there you can manually turn on what you want to enable.  

The following build with GCC 3.4.4 on an AMD64 box gets you AES, CTR mode, SHA-256, HMAC, Yarrow, full RSA PKCS #1, PKCS #5 and ASN.1 DER in 
roughly 40KB of code (49KB on the ARMv4) (both excluding the math library).

CFLAGS="-DLTC_NO_CIPHERS -DLTC_NO_HASHES -DLTC_NO_PRNGS -DLTC_NO_MACS -DLTC_NO_MODES -DLTC_NO_PK -DLTC_RIJNDAEL -DLTC_CTR_MODE -DSHA256 \
-DLTC_HMAC -DYARROW -DMRSA -DMPI -DTFM_DESC -DARGTYPE=3 -Os -DLTC_SMALL_CODE -fomit-frame-pointer" make IGNORE_SPEED=1

Obviously this won't get you performance but if you need to pack a crypto lib in a device with limited means it's more than enough...

Neato eh?