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

[Johannes Goetzfried]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:46:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Is it useless, or is it there to harden against some side-channel
> attack?

When writing this implementation, I first had a different approach with more
data getting read in and I just forgot to delete this instruction in the end.
The instruction didn't have any purpose regarding side-channel attacks. In the
decryption routine the instruction has been correctly deleted in the same
place.
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