Re: Chaining is dead

Herbert Xu
2025-04-01T03:55:12Z

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 08:33:03PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
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> - It would add the overhead of keyslot management to software crypto

That seems to be a design error in blk_crypto. Why should we
model the inadequacies of hardware in software?

If we're going through the software crypto path in blk_crypto,
it should be done as a first-clsas citizen, and not as a poor
man's version of hardware crypto.

Cheers,
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