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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] random: initialize ChaCha20 constants with correct endianness
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:29:27AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
>
> On big endian CPUs, the ChaCha20-based CRNG is using the wrong
> endianness for the ChaCha20 constants.
>
> This doesn't matter cryptographically, but technically it means it's not
> ChaCha20 anymore. Fix it to always use the standard constants.
>
> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> ---
>
> Andrew, please consider taking this patch since the maintainer has been
> ignoring it for 4 months
> (https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200916045013.142179-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u).

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