Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:19:23 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] chacha20poly1305: Skip encryption/decryption for 0-len |
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 02:51:38AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > If the length of the plaintext is zero, there's no need to waste cycles > on encryption and decryption. Using the chacha20poly1305 construction > for zero-length plaintexts is a common way of using a shared encryption > key for AAD authentication. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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