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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:48:56 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prng; bring prng into better alignment with specification

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:32:00PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>  Bring prng into better alignment with specificaion:
>     
>  - Convert to using Generic AES 128 bit cipher
>  - Convert DT to be a non-shifted counter, increasing counter period
>     
>  Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

Applied to cryptodev-2.6.
>
> @@ -325,17 +306,13 @@ int reset_prng_context(struct prng_context *ctx,
>  		       unsigned char *V, unsigned char *DT)
>  	int ret;
> -	int iv_len;
>  	int rc = -EFAULT;
>  	unsigned char *prng_key;
> -	unsigned char *prng_iv;
>  	spin_lock(&ctx->prng_lock);
>  	ctx->flags |= PRNG_NEED_RESET;
>  
>  	prng_key = (key != NULL) ? key : (unsigned char *)DEFAULT_PRNG_KEY;
>  
> -	prng_iv = iv ? iv : (unsigned char *)DEFAULT_PRNG_IV;

We can now kill the iv parameter too.

Thanks,
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