Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: s390 - Remove des and des3_ede code

Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 09:52:31AM +0100, Holger Dengler wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On 26/03/2026 21:12, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Since DES and Triple DES are obsolete, there is very little point in
> > maintining architecture-optimized code for them.  Remove it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> 
> Are there plans to completely remove des/3des in-kernel crypto support from
> the kernel or is it just the arch-specific code, that is removed?

Just the arch-specific code for now.  It will just make these like RC4
and MD4 which are still implemented for compatibility reasons but only
with generic C code.  Someday (years from now) we should remove all of
these entirely, but for now the best we can hope for is simplifying the
implementations to just the generic C code.

- Eric
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