Hi Eric: On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:58:17AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > > I prefer separate types so that the type system enforces that a key is never > accidentally used as an accumulator, and vice versa. Then the poly1305_core_* > functions will be harder to misuse, and the Poly1305 MAC implementations harder > to get wrong. > > The key also has certain bits clear whereas the accumulator does not. In the > future, the Poly1305 C implementation might use base 2^32 and take advantage of > this. In that case, the two inputs to each multiplication won't be > interchangeable, so using the same type for both would be extra confusing. > > Having a poly1305_val nested inside poly1305_key and poly1305_state would work, > but seemed excessive. So it looks like there are no more unresolved issues with this patch series. Please let me know when you want it to go in. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
