Re: [PATCH v2] lib/crypto: Add SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA-512, SHAKE128, SHAKE256

From: David Howells

Date: Tue Sep 23 2025 - 12:31:31 EST


David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > I assume that pertains to the comment about inlining in some way. This
> > > is as is in sha3_generic.c. I can move it into the round function if
> > > you like, but can you tell me what the effect will be?
> >
> > The effect will be that the code will align more closely with how the
> > algorithm is described in the SHA-3 spec and other publications.
>
> I meant on the code produced and the stack consumed. It may align with other
> code, but if it runs off of the end of the stack then alignment is irrelevant.

See commit 4767b9ad7d762876a5865a06465e13e139a01b6b

"crypto: sha3-generic - deal with oversize stack frames"

For some reason (maybe Ard can comment on it), he left the Iota function out
of the keccakf_round() function.

David