Re: [PATCH v6 06/14] crypto: marvell/CESA: add DES support

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jun 18 2015 - 03:03:59 EST


On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 08:57:09AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 09:45:34 +0200
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add support for DES operations.
>
> The addition of DES support seems controversial. At first I thought it
> would be good to support all the algorithms supported by the CESA
> engine, but I think I'll drop it in the next iteration.
>
> Do you think Triple-DES should be dropped too ?

We're not here to make policy decisions. So I don't see anything
wrong with keeping it. However, if you don't wish to add it then
it's fine by me too.

Cheers,
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