linux-kernel - Re: [patch] UBIFS: Add cryptographic functionality when a key is passed to the compress / decompress functions

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204021655430.29393@eristoteles.iwoars.net>
Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:58:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Joel Reardon <joel@...mbassador.com>
To:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] UBIFS: Add cryptographic functionality when a key is
 passed to the compress / decompress functions

>
> I guess I was a little confused WRT iv vs cryptokey. Anyway, I thought
> you just use UBIFS_CRYPTO_KEYSIZE for all of this, why not to just use
> the constant in this function? Why passing the length as an argument?
>

There's no actually reason... in my head, if I have a char buffer then the
next parameter is its length. I'll change it so the comments discuss the
length of the buffer.
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