On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:44:06PM +0300, Ambarus Tudor-Dan-B38632 wrote: > > The reason is to cover a wide range of applications. Your question > also applies to the gcm NIST publication. > > Users may want to use a crypto module that meets the requirements of > FIPS Pub. for various applications that use variable lengths for IV. What are these applications? Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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