Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] crypto: AES CBC multi-buffer glue code

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Dec 09 2015 - 20:46:28 EST


On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 09:23:14AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
>
> This is an internal algorithm. We are indeed casting the request
> to the outer ablkcipher request when we do the async cipher walk.

The question remain: why does it have to be a blkcipher rather
than an ablkcipher?

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