Re: [PATCH] [crypto] XTS: use proper alignment.

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* Herbert Xu | 2008-03-05 19:52:03 [+0800]:

>On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if we are allowed to modify the IV or if it should
>> remain untouched. If it is possible to modify it, I could encrypt it
>> inplace and save two memcpy().
>> I will check this tonight.
>
>I just had a quick look and it seems that you should be able to
>store the result in the IV.
Okey,

>However this won't work for LRW since we need the IV to increment
>it.  But then again LRW seems to be fine as it is since its
>arguments are already aligned by the blkcipher walker.
I just browsed LRW and it seems that it does not encrypt the IV at all.

Stefan: Didn't you report that both, XTS and LRW are broken on your
padlock? If so, could you please post the backtrace?

>
>Thanks,

Sebastian
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