From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: Convert arc4 from a cipher into a block cipher Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:39:39 +0800 Message-ID: <20100406003939.GA21130@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1270280969-11357-1-git-send-email-sebastian@breakpoint.cc> <1270499625.28743.37.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-crypto-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Pavel Roskin Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1270499625.28743.37.camel@mj> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:33:45PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Are you trying to speed up arc4? Or you want to simplify the code? Or > maybe you are trying to make arc4 unsuitable for anything other than WEP > and TKIP? The later should be fine, actually, considering the known > security issues. No the point is to make arc4 compliant with the crypto API by being reentrant. Functionality-wise there is no difference. Cheers, -- 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-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html