From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
Cc: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>, Oded <oded.golombek@arm.com>,
Ofir <Ofir.Drang@arm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Rajendra <rnayak@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 14:53:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170102065325.GA19553@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHv-k_8FmeKk_3zUAVCqHp82nHmiWsyfZ_BW+z=SC5VVOrFsAA@mail.gmail.com>
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.
Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-02 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-13 8:49 [RFC PATCH v2] IV Generation algorithms for dm-crypt Binoy Jayan
2016-12-13 8:49 ` [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan
2016-12-13 10:01 ` Milan Broz
2016-12-14 6:09 ` Binoy Jayan
2016-12-16 5:55 ` Binoy Jayan
2016-12-22 8:55 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-22 10:55 ` Binoy Jayan
2016-12-23 7:51 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-29 9:23 ` Binoy Jayan
2016-12-30 10:27 ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-02 6:46 ` Binoy Jayan
2017-01-02 6:53 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2017-01-02 7:05 ` Binoy Jayan
2017-01-05 6:06 ` Binoy Jayan
2017-01-03 14:23 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2017-01-04 5:20 ` Binoy Jayan
2017-01-11 14:55 ` Ondrej Mosnáček
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