Re: [PATCH net 03/24] crypto: Add 'krb5enc' hash and cipher AEAD algorithm

[David Howells]

Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [!] Note that the net/sunrpc/auth_gss/ implementation gets a pair of
> > ciphers, one non-CTS and one CTS, using the former to do all the aligned
> > blocks and the latter to do the last two blocks if they aren't also
> > aligned.  It may be necessary to do this here too for performance reasons -
> > but there are considerations both ways:
> 
> The CTS template will take any hardware accelerated CBC implementation
> and turn it into CTS.
> 
> So there is no reason to do the CTS/CBC thing by hand at all.

Glad to hear it.  I'm just reporting what net/sunrpc/ does now.  My suspicion
is that this is from before a lot of cpu crypto-based optimisations were made
available in the crypto layer.

David