ion. This new functions allow the crypto API to call ECB / CBC directly with large blocks in difference to the old functions that were calles with algorithm block size (8 bytes for DES). This is up to factor 10 faster than our old hardware implementation :) Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds eP