On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:41:49PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > Hi: > > Previously we would use eseqiv on all async ciphers in all cases, > and sync ciphers if we have more than one CPU. This meant that > chainiv is only used in the case of sync ciphers on a UP machine. > > As chainiv may aid attackers by making the IV predictable, even > though this risk itself is small, the above usage pattern causes > it to further leak information about the host. > > This patch addresses these issues by using eseqiv even if we're > on a UP machine. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> >
That's fine by me. Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
