From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Holger Dengler <dengler@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: s390 - Remove des and des3_ede code
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:32:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260327173229.GB3407398@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65c3d229-57ee-4980-a13f-bc9661b4dda1@linux.ibm.com>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 09:52:31AM +0100, Holger Dengler wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> On 26/03/2026 21:12, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Since DES and Triple DES are obsolete, there is very little point in
> > maintining architecture-optimized code for them. Remove it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
>
> Are there plans to completely remove des/3des in-kernel crypto support from
> the kernel or is it just the arch-specific code, that is removed?
Just the arch-specific code for now. It will just make these like RC4
and MD4 which are still implemented for compatibility reasons but only
with generic C code. Someday (years from now) we should remove all of
these entirely, but for now the best we can hope for is simplifying the
implementations to just the generic C code.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-27 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-26 20:12 [PATCH 0/3] crypto: Remove arch-optimized des and des3_ede code Eric Biggers
2026-03-26 20:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] crypto: s390 - Remove " Eric Biggers
2026-03-27 8:52 ` Holger Dengler
2026-03-27 17:32 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-03-26 20:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] crypto: sparc " Eric Biggers
2026-03-26 20:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] crypto: x86 " Eric Biggers
2026-03-26 20:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] crypto: Remove arch-optimized " John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2026-03-26 20:27 ` Eric Biggers
2026-03-26 21:07 ` Eric Biggers
2026-03-27 9:59 ` Simon Richter
2026-03-27 17:24 ` Eric Biggers
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