Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: pcrypt - Disallow nesting of the pcrypt wrapper

[Herbert Xu]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 10:46:54PM -0400, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> Could we just delete pcrypt instead of continuing to try to fix all the
> weird problems it has?  A web search for pcrypt just finds CVEs and
> advice not to use it, e.g.
> https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/wiki/Internals:-Cryptographic-Acceleration#obsoleted-ipsec-accelerations
> 
> What is the rationale for keeping it?  Who cares about it, other than
> people looking for vulnerabilities?

I wouldn't object.  Last time I tried it the start-up time was
about 20,000 cycles, which is just pointless these days.

Please send a patch.

Thanks,
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