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Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms

From Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms
Date 2016-11-29 08:50 +0100
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Hi Herbert,

On 29 November 2016 at 12:58, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> But that begs the question, who is supposed to use crypto_geniv_set_ctx?
> I thought it was dm-crypt but your patch doesn't contain any uses
> of it at all.

No one is using it as of now. It was just a thought to pass context
information, instead of making it part of the context which is shared
among dm-crypt and geniv.

-Binoy

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Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-11-28 13:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-11-29 05:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-11-29 08:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-11-29 08:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-11-29 09:00 +0100

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