Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: s390 - Remove des and des3_ede code
Harald Freudenberger <[email protected]>
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On 2026-03-27 18:32, Eric Biggers wrote: > 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 Reviewed-by: Harald Freudenberger <[email protected]>