Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:58:30 +1000
To: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cit_encrypt_iv/cit_decrypt_iv for ECB mode
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:49:08PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> 
> Can we maybe define working but IV-ignoring functions for ECB (like I
> did), but use memory-clearing nocrypt*() for CFB and CTR (as long as
> these are not supported)?  Of course, all of these will return -ENOSYS.

In cryptodev-2.6, with block ciphers you can no longer select CFB/CTR
until someone writes support for them so this is no longer an issue.

For 2.4, I don't really mind either way what nocrypt does.

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