Sebastian Siewior writes: > CBC has one limitiation: The IV is written back in the notification > callback. That means that it is not available for crypto requests that > depend on the previous IV (as well as crypto requests >16 KiB). Herbert Xu > pointer out, that this is currently not the case. For instance: > - IPsec brings its own IV on with every packet. A packet is usually <= > 1500 bytes. Jumbo frames should not exceed 16 KiB. > - EcryptFS changes the IV on page bassis (every enc/dec request is > PAGE_SIZE long).
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