On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:17:01PM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>
> setkey() is for crypto user is defined as:
> static inline int crypto_ablkcipher_setkey(struct crypto_ablkcipher
> *tfm,
> const u8 *key, unsigned int keylen)
> {
> return crypto_ablkcipher_crt(tfm)->setkey(tfm, key, keylen);
> }
>
> If the key is not properly aligned by the caller, the cipher gets an
> unaligned key.
> What do you recommend?
I recommend that you write a patch :)
We just need some code in {cipher,blkcipher,ablkcipher}.c to check the
alignment and copy it if necessary. Check out how we deal with unaligned
IVs in blkcipher.c for example.
Cheers,
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