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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] crypto: skcipher: Remove VLA usage for
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 05:10:05PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> In both cases here, what is "cipher"? i.e. what ciphers could lrw be
> wrapping, and what ciphers could cts be wrapping, so that I can
> examine the blocksizes, etc?

A cipher is a simple cipher like aes that operates on a single
block.

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