Re: [PATCH] crypto: make michael_block a function

From: Sebastian Siewior
Date: Fri May 16 2008 - 03:02:19 EST


* Harvey Harrison | 2008-05-15 23:17:17 [-0700]:

>Make the michael_block macro a function and change the calling
>function to take a struct michael_mic_ctx * and the value for
>the initial xor with ctx->l.
>
>Also open-code xswap in its one use in michael_block.
Does this change have any performance impact?
The only user is wireless (I guess). Is it used frequently (sign every
packet for instance) or once in a while (in every re-keying)?

Sebastian
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