From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
Cc: Oded <oded.golombek@arm.com>, Ofir <Ofir.Drang@arm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:50:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161129075011.GA5331@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHv-k___PJA9t=V8Kh1_WVq=K_yBfmD2rUzE-xAd_SCrEgOjUA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:16:46PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote:
>
> No one is using it as of now. It was just a thought to pass context
> information, instead of making it part of the context which is shared
> among dm-crypt and geniv.
OK in that case we should just get rid of it until it's actually
needed. In any case, if there was a need for such information we
should try to embed it into either the key (per-tfm) or the IV
(per-request) as appropriate.
Thanks,
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-29 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-21 10:10 [RFC PATCH] IV Generation algorithms for dm-crypt Binoy Jayan
2016-11-21 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan
2016-11-28 12:47 ` Herbert Xu
2016-11-29 4:45 ` Binoy Jayan
2016-11-29 7:28 ` Herbert Xu
2016-11-29 7:46 ` Binoy Jayan
2016-11-29 7:50 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
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