Re: [PATCH] crypto: gcm - fix cacheline sharing

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 11:10:28 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 05:04:51PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> But given your remark regarding CBC being the only algo that has this
> requirement, I wonder if this might be sufficient as well.

It's not that CBC is the only one with the requirement. It's just
that this is the wrong output IV for CTR.

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