# Re: \[RFC PATCH\] crypto: caam - convert from ablkcipher -\> skcipher

- From: Herbert Xu \<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au\>
- Date: 2016-09-01 10:13:56 
- List: linux-crypto
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-crypto/2016/09/8478462
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-crypto/2016/08/8478442/t.md

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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:11:24PM +0300, Horia Geantă wrote:
> (a)blkcipher is being deprecated in favcur of skcipher.
> The main difference is that IV generation is moved out
> of crypto algorithms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>

Thanks! Please hold on though because I'm not quite done with
the driver-side skcipher interface yet.

> but I am not sure block ciphers with IV generation - for e.g.
> seqiv(rfc3686(ctr(aes))) - make any sense and/or are useful.

This should be removed completely as IV generation is now done
at the AEAD level only.

Cheers,
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Email: Herbert Xu [ref]
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