Re: IV copy strategy

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:08:51AM +0800, Herbert Xu (herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > So a general question: Is it a must (requirement by the crypto API) to
> > copy the IV back or not? I guess not if we move completely to async (one
> > day) :)
> 
> You must copy it back to allow chaining.  Even when we go async
> someone may wish to chain.  So in that sense you've just found a
> bug in the hifn driver :)

That's a question - should it copy IV back or not?
Currently it is not required by crypto users.

P.S. Sebastian, your mailer seems not to setup reply-to, since each time
I reply, your mail is copied to the header :)

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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