Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: sparc: Drop optimized MD5 code
Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.sparclinux,org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <20260330193718.GB4303@sol> |
On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 01:33:41PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > MD5 is obsolete. Continuing to maintain architecture-optimized > implementations of MD5 is unnecessary and risky. It diverts resources > from the modern algorithms that are actually important. > > While there was demand for continuing to maintain the PowerPC optimized > MD5 code to accommodate userspace programs that are misusing AF_ALG > (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/), > no such demand has been seen for the SPARC optimized MD5 code. > > Thus, let's drop it and focus effort on the more modern SHA algorithms, > which already have optimized code for SPARC. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> > --- > > This patch is targeting libcrypto-next Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-next - Eric