Re: [Drbd-dev] drbd 2.6.19 crypto changes

[Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg@linbit.com>]

/ 2007-01-10 13:31:16 +0100
\ Ard van Breemen:
> This is a preliminary patch as in: as far as I can see it
> *should* work.
> Biggest change in the crypto api is that calls are more
> encapsulated.
> Instead of a hmac, we talk about hash only. We allocate and free
> hash structures, independent what kind of hash.
> To calculate the digest there are now 2 calls necessary: a call
> to setkey (if you want to use a key), and a call to generate the
> digest itself.
> This patch tries to keep the changes contained at a single point.
> This means we set the hash_key 2 times instead of being clever
> and setting it once in a more central point, and use that later
> on a few times.
> Anyway: it compiles without warning, it loads, what more do we
> want.

thank you very much...
and just in time!
we started working on that api change just now :)
this probably helps a lot.

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