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Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18


Adding to the list of pull requests submitted early in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening are several cryptography-related improvements

Adding to the list of pull requests submitted early in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening are several cryptography-related improvements. Google engineer Eric Biggers continues leading some very nice performance improvements in the cryptography space for the Linux kernel. This 2-way interleaved SHA-256 hashing is immediately used by the FS-VERITY module for faster file data verification.

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