From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64/crypto: fix and improve GHASH secure hash implementation
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:31:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140616093119.GB3971@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402584187-17114-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This fixes a bug in the arm64 GHASH implementation, and switches to a faster,
> polynomial multiplication based reduction instead of one that uses
> shifts and rotates.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
>
> This is a bug fix and a performance optimization in a single patch. As the code
> has never worked correctly and was merged just a couple of days ago, I am
> assuming this is OK but if anyone would prefer the bug fix separately, I'm happy
> to split them as well.
I can push a performance optimisation patch as well but I would prefer
to separate the bug-fixing part. Could you please also describe what the
bug was for future reference?
Thanks.
--
Catalin
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-12 14:43 [PATCH] arm64/crypto: fix and improve GHASH secure hash implementation Ard Biesheuvel
2014-06-12 14:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-06-12 14:54 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-06-16 9:31 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
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