On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:34:29AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Herbert> Thanks for the patch. However, I won't apply this because > Herbert> it will soon become redundant once I add parameterised > Herbert> algorithms. > > What does that mean?
Instead of requesting for "cipher_null" with a block chaining mode you will soon ask for "cbc(cipher_null)" or "ecb(cipher_null)". So there should be no ambiguity as to which mode is being requested. Also the generic CBC algorithm will support arbitrary block sizes. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
