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Re: [PATCH 3/7] crypto/testmgr: add testing for arc4 based on ecb(arc4)

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On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 09:49 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> +			if (mode == CRYPT_ARC4)
> +				arc4_setup_iv((struct arc4_iv *)iv,
> +					template[i].key, template[i].klen);
> +			else
> +				ret = crypto_ablkcipher_setkey(tfm, template[i].key,
>  						       template[i].klen);

Can we avoid those special cases?  If the goal is "to make arc4
compliant with the crypto API", this looks like a step in a wrong
direction.

The same applies to many other changes in the series.

I do realize that the original arc4 is not a block cipher at all.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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