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From: Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger <ken@codelabs.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto/arc4: convert this stream cipher into a block
 cipher
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:34:27 +0100
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To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
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Hi,

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior schrieb:
> the state has been moved from ctx into iv. That way encrypt()/decrypt() can
> deliver the same result for a given IV. This patch makes the cipher work with
> dm-crypt not that it is a good thing. However, the performance may have
> improved :)
> The name is still ecb(aes) but since this is provided by the blkcipher itself,

Just to avoid any confusion you meant ecb(arc4) not ecb(aes) here right?

-Adrian