On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 03:35:19PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 7/15/25 2:44 PM, Eric Biggers wrote: > > But if the actual encryption is done using code > > whose developers / maintainers don't really consider encryption to be a > > priority, that's not a great place to be. > > Why does the crypto fallback code clone a bio instead of encrypting / > decrypting in place? Decryption is already in-place. Encryption is not, and unfortunately it can't be since the source data must not be changed. If you encrypt in-place, then the data would get corrupted every time it's written. - Eric
