Re: using crypto_digest() on non-kmalloc'd memory failures

[Oleg Makarenko <mole@quadra.ru>]

James Morris wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Oleg Makarenko wrote:


>>Is there any better way to use crypto api for arc4 or similar ciphers? 
>>Cipher block size is not always a natural choice for the crypto_yield(). 
>>Especially for fast ciphers (arc4) and small "block" sizes (arc4 again).
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>ARC4 is a bit strange because it's a stream cipher.  I guess we could add 
>another encryption mode 'stream' which is optimized for one byte at a time 
>operation.
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>- James
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That would probably require one more parameter to 
cin_encrypt/cia_decrypt, something like "nblocks" which currently is 
always 1 and one more struct crypto_alg field that would help upper 
level to decide how many blocks it can safely encrypt/decrypt() at a 
time before crypto_yield(). This value depends on algorithm speed and 
should be chosen to make overhead smaller. It could  be > 1 even for 
fast block ciphers and should be > 1 for stream ciphers.

=oleg