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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] why nbytes for block cipher encrypt/decrypt is only 512 bytes
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:22:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120420102244.GA18629@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPihpKBpGL7SncafRNwZ+eJk2Ck83KWZg=0BmooYeconXHLGhA@mail.gmail.com>

I think you cannot. As long as the block-size for the IV scheme
is 512 bytes, you are stuck with encrypting 512 bytes at a time,
as they have their own IV. 

Arno


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 05:28:54PM +0800, Rodel Miguel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am implementing a hardware encryption driver but I am having some
> performance issues.  One of the areas of performance improvement that I am
> thinking is to increase the number of bytes (unsigned int nbytes) that my
> block cipher driver's encrypt/decrypt function gets; from 512 to 4096
> bytes.  My hardware can be maximized to 4kbytes.  Do you have any
> suggestions how I can maximize the en/decrypt performance by getting more
> than 512 bytes of data every time the block cipher's encrypt/decrypt is
> called?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help!
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Rodel

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20  9:28 [dm-crypt] why nbytes for block cipher encrypt/decrypt is only 512 bytes Rodel Miguel
2012-04-20 10:22 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2012-04-20 10:55   ` Rodel Miguel
2012-04-20 11:35   ` Milan Broz

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