On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:41:41AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> While its a slightly insane to bypass the key1 == key2 ||
> key2 == key3 check in triple-des, since it reduces it to the
> same strength as des, some folks do need to do this from time
> to time for backwards compatibility with des.
>
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:17:27PM +0100, Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger wrote:
> This resend contains the fixed up sha512 patches to switch the last
> remaining algorithm to shash.
>
> The first patch is now correct also in the case of preemption. The
> second patch remains unchanged.
Both applied. Tha
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:33:39AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
>
> - Now an AES core block algorithm is implemented with AES-NI as
> CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER, which can benefit all modes (CBC, LRW, etc). But
> because it seems that there is no asynchronous interface for
> CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER, the AE
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:26 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Huang Ying wrote:
> >
> > f. if TS is clear, then use x86_64 implementation. Otherwise if
> > user-space has touched the FPU, we save the state, if not then simply
> > clear TS.
>
> Well I'd rather avoid using the x86_64 implementation ever b
Huang Ying wrote:
>
> f. if TS is clear, then use x86_64 implementation. Otherwise if
> user-space has touched the FPU, we save the state, if not then simply
> clear TS.
Well I'd rather avoid using the x86_64 implementation ever because
unless the chip guys have really screwed up we should be loo
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 07:31 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:38:01PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:21:06PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > >
> > > > a. Do not touch SSE state in soft_irq
> > > > b. Disable/restore soft_irq in kernel_fpu_begin/kernel_fpu_e
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:38:01PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:21:06PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > > a. Do not touch SSE state in soft_irq
> > > b. Disable/restore soft_irq in kernel_fpu_begin/kernel_fpu_end
> > > c. Use a per-CPU data structure to save kernel FPU sta
