Re: xts fuzz testing and lack of ciphertext stealing support

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:19:24PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Note that for software algorithms such as the bit sliced NEON
> implementation of AES, which can only operate on 8 AES blocks at a
> time, doing the final 2 blocks sequentially is going to seriously
> impact performance. This means whatever wrapper we invent around xex()
> (or whatever we call it) should go out of its way to ensure that the
> common, non-CTS case does not regress in performance, and the special
> handling is only invoked when necessary (which will be never).

Agreed.

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