Re: [RFC PATCH v2] md/dm-crypt - reuse eboiv skcipher for IV generation

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On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 09:33:14PM +0000, Pascal Van Leeuwen wrote:
> Real life designs require all kinds of trade-offs and compromises.
> If you want to make something twice as expensive, you'd better have a 
> really solid reason for doing so. So yes, I do believe it is useful to
> be sceptical and question these things. But I always listen to good 
> arguments, so just convince me I got it wrong *for my particular use
> case* (I'm not generally interested in the generic case).

Or rather, if you want to take shortcuts and incorrectly implement a crypto
construction, you'd better have a really solid reason for doing so.

It's on you to show that your crypto is okay, not me.

- Eric



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