Daniel Kang <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

I didn't measure it, but most of the time is spent in the actual
algorithm, not in loading and storing data.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
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