Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261636AbVDCJcJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 05:32:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261635AbVDCJcJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 05:32:09 -0400 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:17673 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261627AbVDCJcF (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 05:32:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 19:30:44 +1000 To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" Cc: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" , dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression Message-ID: <20050403093044.GA20608@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20050401152325.GB4150@gondor.apana.org.au> <20050401221303.GA6557@gondor.apana.org.au> <424FA7B4.6050008@yandex.ru> <20050403084415.GA20326@gondor.apana.org.au> <424FB06B.3060607@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <424FB06B.3060607@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Herbert Xu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 24 On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:59:23PM +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: > > Err, it looks like we've lost the conversation flow. :-) I commented > your phrase: "The question is what happens when you compress 1 1GiB > input buffer into a 1GiB output buffer." > > Then could you please in a nutshell write what worries you or what issue > you would like to clarify? > > IIRC, you worried that in case of a large input and output 12 bytes > won't be enough. I argued it should. I'm even going to check this soon :-) You can't compress 1M-12bytes into 1M using zlib when the block size is 64K. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/