Why the auxiliary cipher in gss_krb5_crypto.c?

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:35:48PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Herbert recently made some changes for MSG_MORE support in the AF_ALG
> code, which permits a skcipher encryption to be split into several
> invocations of the skcipher layer without the need for this complexity
> on the side of the caller. Maybe there is a way to reuse that here.
> Herbert?

Yes this was one of the reasons I was persuing the continuation
work.  It should allow us to kill the special case for CTS in the
krb5 code.

Hopefully I can get some time to restart work on this soon.

Cheers,
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