From: Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto/arc4: convert this stream cipher into a block cipher Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:34:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4B7520A3.9010109@codelabs.ch> References: <20100209073718.GA17612@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100209145705.GA20421@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> <20100209204519.GC26258@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100209211238.GC21548@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> <20100209214522.GA27002@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100212084228.GA1535@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Herbert Xu , Mikulas Patocka , mbroz@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Return-path: Received: from mailx.swiss-it.ch ([81.6.4.203]:59170 "EHLO mailx.swiss-it.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751844Ab0BLJmI (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:42:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100212084228.GA1535@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior schrieb: > the state has been moved from ctx into iv. That way encrypt()/decrypt() can > deliver the same result for a given IV. This patch makes the cipher work with > dm-crypt not that it is a good thing. However, the performance may have > improved :) > The name is still ecb(aes) but since this is provided by the blkcipher itself, Just to avoid any confusion you meant ecb(arc4) not ecb(aes) here right? -Adrian