[PATCH -v3] crypto: Add PCLMULQDQ accelerated GHASH implementation

2009-09-14 Thread Huang Ying
Hi, Herbert, The dependency to irq_fpu_usable has been merged by linus' tree. Best Regards, Huang Ying --> PCLMULQDQ is used to accelerate the most time-consuming part of GHASH, carry-less multiplication. More information abo

Re: [PATCH]: fix repetition test for hardware RNG to be FIPS compliant (v2)

2009-09-14 Thread Neil Horman
Ok, version 2 of the patch, taking comments into account To be fips compliant, RNGs need to preform a continuous test on their output. Specifically the requirement is that the first block of random data generated in an RNG be saved to see the comparison test, and never returned to the caller. This