linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: Make VMAC work when blocks aren't aligned

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Message-ID: <20121015143401.GD25426@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:34:01 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>
Cc:	Shane Wang <shane.wang@...el.com>,
	Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: Make VMAC work when blocks aren't aligned

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 02:24:14PM -0700, Salman Qazi wrote:
> VMAC implementation, as it is, does not work with blocks that
> are not multiples of 128-bytes.  Furthermore, this is a problem
> when using the implementation on scatterlists, even
> when the complete plain text is 128-byte multiple, as the pieces
> that get passed to vmac_update can be pretty much any size.
> 
> I also added test cases for unaligned blocks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks!
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