From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cit_encrypt_iv/cit_decrypt_iv for ECB mode
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:58:46 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060820165846.GA20510@openwall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060820161346.GH602@1wt.eu>
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:13:46PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:49:08PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> > Can we maybe define working but IV-ignoring functions for ECB (like I
> > did), but use memory-clearing nocrypt*() for CFB and CTR (as long as
> > these are not supported)? Of course, all of these will return -ENOSYS.
>
> I thought we would not have to protect users from shooting themselves in
> the foot (right now they get an oops). But I agree that the cost of
> protecting them is close to zero so we probably should do it. If Herbert
> is OK, do you care to provide a new patch ?
Yes, if the above proposal is OK with Herbert, I will provide a new
patch for 2.4.
Thanks,
Alexander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-20 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-20 0:23 [PATCH] cit_encrypt_iv/cit_decrypt_iv for ECB mode Solar Designer
2006-08-20 8:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 11:20 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-20 14:49 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 16:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 16:58 ` Solar Designer [this message]
2006-08-20 22:58 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-22 6:28 ` Solar Designer
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