Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:

> That makes sense. I was trying to figure that out without putting a
> conditional into encrypt.

I don't think a conditional on entry to chacha_poly1305_encrypt is a big
deal (for high performance, one ought to pass several blocks per call
anyway). And you can most likely take out the current check "if
(!ctx->data_size)", so it shouldn't really add a conditional.

About alignment, after a quick look, I think chacha_poly1305_*crypt can
call _poly1305_block directly, by-passing the buffering logic in
poly1305_update / MD_UPDATE. Except that I'm not sure how to handle a
final, partial, block.

The poly1305 buffer is then needed only for chacha_poly1305_update,
assuming we're going to stick to the convention that _update functions
don't impose any block size on the caller.

Regards,
/Niels

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