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Subject: Re: another testmgr question
To:     Pascal Van Leeuwen <pvanleeuwen@insidesecure.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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From:   Kamil Konieczny <k.konieczny@partner.samsung.com>
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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 12:43:42 +0200
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On 24.05.2019 12:13, Pascal Van Leeuwen wrote:
>> True. Those are the "other" reasons - besides acceleration - to use hardware
>> offload which we often use to sell our IP.
>> But the honest story there is that that only works out for situations
>> where there's enough work to do to make the software overhead for actually
>> starting and managing that work insignificant. [...]

Hmm, is there any HW which support hash of zero-len message ?

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Best regards,
Kamil Konieczny
Samsung R&D Institute Poland