ACK: [J][PATCH 0/2] In-kernel crypto: SIMD implementation of chacha20 (LP: 1853152)

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com
Mon Mar 7 11:20:44 UTC 2022


On 24/02/2022 20:11, frank.heimes at canonical.com wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853152
> 
> Recent kernel releases provide support for the chacha20 cipher and among
> others use it to compute pseudo random numbers for /dev/urandom. Chacha20
> is a type of algorithm that can be accelerated using SIMD instructions.
> The goal of this item is to use z System SIMD instruction
> to implement chacha20.
> 
> Heiko Carstens (1):
>   s390/crypto: fix compile error for ChaCha20 module
> 
> Patrick Steuer (1):
>   s390/crypto: add SIMD implementation for ChaCha20
> 


Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>


Best regards,
Krzysztof



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