Re: [PATCH 2/2] chacha20poly1305: Skip encryption/decryption for 0-len

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From	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/2] chacha20poly1305: Skip encryption/decryption for 0-len
Date	Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:30:02 +0100
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 02:51:38AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> If the length of the plaintext is zero, there's no need to waste cycles
> on encryption and decryption. Using the chacha20poly1305 construction
> for zero-length plaintexts is a common way of using a shared encryption
> key for AAD authentication.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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[PATCH 2/2] chacha20poly1305: Skip encryption/decryption for 0-len "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2015-12-06 03:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] chacha20poly1305: Skip encryption/decryption for  0-len Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-12-09 13:30 +0100

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