Re: [PATCH 2/3] crypto: add output feedback mode

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 12:06:29PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 20 September 2018 at 15:18, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Add a generic version of output feedback mode. We already have support of
> > several hardware based transformations of this mode and the needed test
> > vectors but we somehow missed adding a generic software one. Fix this now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I couldn't find any users of OFB in the kernel. Any idea who is using
> it and for what?

Yes this shouldn't have been accepted however the driver did go
in with OFB and it's been there for a while so that's why I'm
making this exception.

Cheers,
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