[PATCH] arm64/crypto: fix and improve GHASH secure hash implementation

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jun 12 07:48:47 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This fixes a bug in the arm64 GHASH implementation, and switches to a faster,
> polynomial multiplication based reduction instead of one that uses
> shifts and rotates.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
> 
> This is a bug fix and a performance optimization in a single patch.

Thanks. I'll push it after -rc1.

> As the code has never worked correctly and was merged just a couple of
> days ago,

IIRC you said you tested the crypto patches.

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Catalin



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