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Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] crypto/arc4: convert this stream cipher into a block cipher
- From: Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger <ken codelabs ch>
- To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian breakpoint cc>
- Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert gondor apana org au>, dm-devel redhat com, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka redhat com>, linux-crypto vger kernel org, agk redhat com, mbroz redhat com
- Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] crypto/arc4: convert this stream cipher into a block cipher
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:34:27 +0100
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
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