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

From	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms
Date	2016-11-29 09:00 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:16:46PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote:
> 
> 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.

OK in that case we should just get rid of it until it's actually
needed.  In any case, if there was a need for such information we
should try to embed it into either the key (per-tfm) or the IV
(per-request) as appropriate.

Thanks,
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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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