netdev - Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 1/9] crypto: authencesn - Add algorithm to handle IPsec extended sequence numbers

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Message-ID: <20110314100245.GO31402@secunet.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:02:45 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alex Badea <abadea@...acom.com>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 1/9] crypto: authencesn - Add algorithm to
 handle IPsec extended sequence numbers

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:39:07PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > Not sure if I get you right, but we do not set this flag here.
> > We use it to mask the flags we got from the request, so we pass
> > this flag to the ahash algorithm just if it was set by the
> > original aead request.
> 
> Indeed you are right.  As long as it is only a mask and only
> used on the sync path it should be OK.
> 

Yes, that's how it is used in both, authenc and authencesn.
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