[dm-devel] [PATCH] crypto/arc4: convert this stream cipher into a block cipher

Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger ken at codelabs.ch
Fri Feb 12 09:34:27 UTC 2010


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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