On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:02:28PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Some generic implementations of vintage ciphers rely on alignmasks to
> ensure that the input is presented with the right alignment. Given that
> these are all C implementations, which may execute on architectures that
> don't care a
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 12:19, Herbert Xu wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > One thing that became apparent to me while looking into this stuff is
> > that the skcipher encrypt/decrypt API ignores alignmasks altogether,
> > so this is something we shou
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> One thing that became apparent to me while looking into this stuff is
> that the skcipher encrypt/decrypt API ignores alignmasks altogether,
> so this is something we should probably look into at some point, i.e.,
> whether the ali
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 23:20, Eric Biggers wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:02:28PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Some generic implementations of vintage ciphers rely on alignmasks to
> > ensure that the input is presented with the right alignment. Given that
> > these are all C implementat
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:02:28PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Some generic implementations of vintage ciphers rely on alignmasks to
> ensure that the input is presented with the right alignment. Given that
> these are all C implementations, which may execute on architectures that
> don't care a
