Why the auxiliary cipher in gss_krb5_crypto.c?

[David Howells]

Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> 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.

In the krb5 case, we know in advance how much data we're going to be dealing
with, if that helps.

David