Messages in this thread | | | From | Binoy Jayan <> | Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2017 12:35:03 +0530 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms |
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On 2 January 2017 at 12:23, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 12:16:45PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote: >> >> Even if ciphers are allocated this way, all the encryption requests >> for cbc should still go through IV generators? So that should mean, >> create one instance of IV generator using 'crypto_alloc_skcipher' >> and create tfms_count instances of the generator depending on the >> number of keys. > > Right. The actual number of underlying tfms that do the work > won't change compared to the status quo. We're just structuring > it such that if the overall scheme is supported by the hardware > then we can feed more than one sector at a time to it.
Thank you Herbert.
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