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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 01:03:12 +0100
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
"Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable
function
On 16.12.2016 00:43, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
>
> Good news.
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
> <hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
>>> How's that sound?
>>
>> I am still very much concerned about the API.
>
> Thanks for pushing me and putting up with my daftness... the constant
> folding works absolutely perfectly. I've run several tests. When gcc
> knows that a struct is aligned (say, via __aligned(8)), then it erases
> the branch and makes a direct jump to the aligned code. When it's
> uncertain, it evaluates at runtime. So, now there is a single
> siphash() function that chooses the best one automatically. Behind the
> scene there's siphash_aligned and siphash_unaligned, but nobody needs
> to call these directly. (Should I rename these to have a double
> underscore prefix?) On platforms that have
> CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS, of course all of this
> disappears and everything goes directly to the aligned version.
>
> So, I think this assuages your concerns entirely. A single API entry
> point that does the right thing.
>
> Whew! Good thinking, and thanks again for the suggestion.
Awesome, thanks for trying this out. This basically resolves my concern
API-wise so far.
Hannes out. ;)
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