2011/7/3 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>

> "Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2011/7/3 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>:
> >> The AES and DES functions currently require, but do not document it,
> >> 8-byte alignment for input and output buffers.  This is causing the AES
> >> test to fail on SPARC.
> >>
> >> What shall we do about this?  I can see two options:
> >>
> >> 1. Document the requirement and fix all internal uses to ensure it is
> >>   met (none currently do).
> >>
> >> 2. Change the crypto code to allow arbitrarily aligned buffers (easy).
> >
> > I prefer 1, but don't strongly object to 2.
>
> The performance impact of allowing unaligned buffers should be minimal,
> so I don't see much reason to place this extra burden on users.


How minimal? Either way is fine with me though.
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