Subject: Re: [PATCH] AES x86-64-asm impl.
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>,
       Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Florian Bohrer <florian.bohrer@t-online.de>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, discuss@x86-64.org
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On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:26, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > 
> >>On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:20:43 +0300, Jari Ruusu
> >>I understand that, I still don't understand the reaseon.
> >>But hey, feel free to ignore my question ;)
> > 
> > 
> > You haven't looked at cryptoloop security, have you?
> > 
> > No sane person wants to be accociated with that kind of broken and
> > backdoored scam. I certainly don't.
> > 
> Would you be happy if the code were wrapped as a general use package 
> like blowfish, or have you decided that because one part of Linux 
> doesn't meet your standards you don't want to allow any of your code to 
> be used in it?
> 

Please check the archives, Jari's reasons are well documented.  I cannot
summarize the technical issues here as IANA cryptographer but please,
let's not start that thread again.

Lee 

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