Re: [RFC PATCH 01/21] crypto: scomp - Revert "add support for deflate rfc1950 (zlib)"
From: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
Date: 2023-08-03 10:30:32
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 11:59:00AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
Any clue why zlib_deflate was chosen in this case?
I believe it was done for integrity. The output of zlib_deflate is raw deflate with an header and a footer defined in rfc1950. The footer contains a checksum which gets calculated over the uncompressed data during compression and checked after decompression. -- Giovanni