On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:46:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Is it useless, or is it there to harden against some side-channel > attack? When writing this implementation, I first had a different approach with more data getting read in and I just forgot to delete this instruction in the end. The instruction didn't have any purpose regarding side-channel attacks. In the decryption routine the instruction has been correctly deleted in the same place. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html