Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms

From	Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms
Date	2017-01-02 08:10 +0100
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On 2 January 2017 at 12:23, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 12:16:45PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote:
>>
>> Even if ciphers are allocated this way, all the encryption requests
>> for cbc should still go through IV generators? So that should mean,
>> create one instance of IV generator using 'crypto_alloc_skcipher'
>> and create tfms_count instances of the generator depending on the
>> number of keys.
>
> Right.  The actual number of underlying tfms that do the work
> won't change compared to the status quo.  We're just structuring
> it such that if the overall scheme is supported by the hardware
> then we can feed more than one sector at a time to it.

Thank you Herbert.

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[RFC PATCH v2] IV Generation algorithms for dm-crypt Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-13 10:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 11:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-14 07:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-16 07:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-22 10:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-22 12:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-23 09:00 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-29 10:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-30 11:30 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2017-01-02 07:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-01-02 08:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2017-01-02 08:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> - 2017-01-03 15:30 +0100

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