On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 03:47:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> @@ -728,8 +660,7 @@ static struct compressor ppp_mppe = {
> static int __init ppp_mppe_init(void)
> {
> int answer;
> - if (!(crypto_has_skcipher("ecb(arc4)", 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC) &&
> - crypto_has_ahash("sha1",
The MPPE code uses the sync skcipher to invoke the ecb(arc4) skcipher,
of which only a single generic C code implementation exists. This means
that going through all the trouble of using scatterlists etc buys us
very little, and we're better off just invoking the arc4 library directly.
Note that t
