Re: [PATCH] crypto: twofish-avx - remove useless instruction

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012, Johannes Goetzfried wrote:
> The register %rdx is written, but never read till the end of the encryption
> routine. Therefore let's delete the useless instruction.

Is it useless, or is it there to harden against some side-channel
attack?

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  Henrique Holschuh
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