Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: caam - convert from ablkcipher -> skcipher

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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:11:24PM +0300, Horia Geantă wrote:
> (a)blkcipher is being deprecated in favcur of skcipher.
> The main difference is that IV generation is moved out
> of crypto algorithms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>

Thanks! Please hold on though because I'm not quite done with
the driver-side skcipher interface yet.

> but I am not sure block ciphers with IV generation - for e.g.
> seqiv(rfc3686(ctr(aes))) - make any sense and/or are useful.

This should be removed completely as IV generation is now done
at the AEAD level only.

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