On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:34:48AM +0800, Tan Swee Heng wrote: > Hi, > > 'grep "static void xor_" crypto/*' shows that cbc.c, ctr.c, pcbc.c and > xcbc.c share similar xor_* functions. It seems a good idea to > encourage code reuse by putting them into a common header (iirc > Evgeniy suggested it when reviewing one of my earlier mail). It will > also be useful to me when porting other eSTREAM ciphers. So I would > like to move them into include/crypto/xor_n.h and make them all > "static inline". Any objections?
Do you actually need to xor anything that's not a multiple of 8 bytes? I'm currently working on a patch to just restrict the block size for non-stream ciphers to multiples of 8 since that's what we have anyway. That allows us to just use bitmap_xor. 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
