Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] rust: crypto: add AES-128, AES-CMAC, SHA-256, and HMAC bindings

[Eric Biggers]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 05:29:48PM +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
> +//! Safe wrappers over the kernel's synchronous library crypto.
> +//!
> +//! Exposes the one-shot `lib/crypto` primitives — AES-128 (an [`Aes128`] key
> +//! prepared once for single-block encryption, the building block for modes the
> +//! library does not yet provide such as AES-CTR)

There's an aes_ctr() function now.

With that, is bare AES still needed?

- Eric