> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:46:59 +0200, Milan Broz said:
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> Don't use this as a block cipher in dm-crypt, it is a bad idea.
>>
>> The long story:
>> ARC4 is a stream cipher and not a block cipher. Its internal state is
>> reseted in setkey() and every crypto
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:38:05AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>
> Herbert, any concern to inroduce
> #define CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_STREAM_CIPHER 0x0007
> and split block cipher from stream cipher?
> So no one would mix them up since dm-crypt for instance will look just
> for block
* Milan Broz | 2009-08-06 09:46:59 [+0200]:
>yes, I understand why this happens. I do not want to use stream cipher,
>but apparently users will do that:-)
So once they discover that they have salsa20 in kernel they see another
problem.
>My question was why crypto allows this setting?
Well, WLAN i
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Don't use this as a block cipher in dm-crypt, it is a bad idea.
>
> The long story:
> ARC4 is a stream cipher and not a block cipher. Its internal state is
> reseted in setkey() and every crypto request (encrypt/decrypt don't
> matter) update the internal state
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:17 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:45:31PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > PCLMULQDQ is used to accelerate the most time-consuming part of GHASH,
> > carry-less multiplication. More information about PCLMULQDQ can be
> > found at:
> >
> > http://software
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:45:31PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> PCLMULQDQ is used to accelerate the most time-consuming part of GHASH,
> carry-less multiplication. More information about PCLMULQDQ can be
> found at:
>
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/carry-less-multiplication-and-its-usage
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 11:27:02PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> Peter, do you want to apply this patch in your tree or would
>> you prefer for it to go through my tree along with the rest of
>> the series?
>>
>
> I'll take it tomorrow... want to double-check that we don't
