[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add bulk skcipher requests to crypto API and dm-crypt

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Fri Jan 13 10:41:28 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:59:52PM +0100, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> 
> the goal of this patchset is to allow those skcipher API users that need to
> process batches of small messages (especially dm-crypt) to do so efficiently.

Please explain why this can't be done with the existing framework
using IV generators similar to the ones used for IPsec.

Thanks,
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