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Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:01:57 +0200
From: Sebastian Siewior <lkml@ml.breakpoint.cc>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: make michael_block a function
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* Harvey Harrison | 2008-05-15 23:17:17 [-0700]:

>Make the michael_block macro a function and change the calling
>function to take a struct michael_mic_ctx * and the value for
>the initial xor with ctx->l.
>
>Also open-code xswap in its one use in michael_block.
Does this change have any performance impact?
The only user is wireless (I guess). Is it used frequently (sign every
packet for instance) or once in a while (in every re-keying)?

Sebastian