On 2 January 2017 at 12:23, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 12:16:45PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote: >> >> Even if ciphers are allocated this way, all the encryption requests >> for cbc should still go through IV generators? So that should mean, >> create one instance of IV generator using 'crypto_alloc_skcipher' >> and create tfms_count instances of the generator depending on the >> number of keys. > > Right. The actual number of underlying tfms that do the work > won't change compared to the status quo. We're just structuring > it such that if the overall scheme is supported by the hardware > then we can feed more than one sector at a time to it. Thank you Herbert. -- 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
