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Re: new version of loop.c patch
"IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R" wrote:
> I am a bit confused as to what you mean with this message. What is "in place
> encryption"? Your previous message says that loop-aes in fact does do
> encrypted swap. Can you give us some information on how that might otherwise
> work?
In-place encryption == ciphertext overwrites original plaintext in memory.
Loop-AES and HVR cryptoapi use separate buffers for ciphertext and plaintext
so that original plaintext is not overwritten.
Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/