On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:16:46PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote: > > No one is using it as of now. It was just a thought to pass context > information, instead of making it part of the context which is shared > among dm-crypt and geniv.
OK in that case we should just get rid of it until it's actually needed. In any case, if there was a need for such information we should try to embed it into either the key (per-tfm) or the IV (per-request) as appropriate. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
