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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> | 2026-05-22 08:07:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-06-10 03:03:03 +0300 |
| commit | 1967bfaf7ba15dc179a7e3325e880736efbcdf62 (patch) | |
| tree | 799edffc502b773693bb3d0e06778b080bc460c3 /scripts | |
| parent | 374efbdc85d027814f6b26a8d641dc062f9017c0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1967bfaf7ba15dc179a7e3325e880736efbcdf62.tar.xz | |
crypto: pcbc - Remove support for PCBC mode
The only user of PCBC mode (Propagating Cipher Block Chaining mode) was
net/rxrpc/rxkad.c, which now uses local code instead.
While PCBC was an interesting cryptographic experiment, it has largely
been relegated to the history books and academic exercises. It is
non-parallelizable (i.e., very slow) and doesn't actually achieve the
integrity properties it was apparently intended to achieve.
Remove support for it from the crypto API.
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522050740.84561-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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