From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/5] aead: Add generic aead wrapper interface
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:21:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090602092151.GJ20366@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090602035041.GB22831@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:50:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> Hmm, it seems that this patch is completely intertwined into the
> rest of the patches so we can't just kill it. Can you elaborate
> on the rationale behind this wrap work? I'm curious to find out
> what we gain by this over the much simpler patch you had in your
> previous set.
>
The reason for the wrap work is to have a possibility to choose a
certain version of an algorithm as the system default. The advantage
e.g. for pcrypt is that we can turn over the whole system to pcrypt,
or we can choose for pcrypt by the algorithm name if we want to use
it just for a subset of transforms. In particular we have a possibility
to use pcrypt without touching other subsystems (like networking) and
userspace tools for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-13 13:06 [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Parallel IPsec v3 Steffen Klassert
2009-05-13 13:07 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/5] padata: generic interface for parallel processing Steffen Klassert
2009-05-13 13:08 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/5] aead: Add generic aead wrapper interface Steffen Klassert
2009-06-02 3:45 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-02 3:50 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-02 9:21 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2009-06-02 9:28 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-03 9:32 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-03 9:40 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-03 11:23 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-03 11:59 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-03 12:14 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-03 12:14 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-05 9:20 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-05 9:20 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-05 9:34 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-08 5:28 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-08 6:45 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-25 6:51 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-29 11:04 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-29 11:59 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-29 13:52 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-06-29 13:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] padata: generic interface for parallel processing Steffen Klassert
2009-06-29 13:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] pcrypt: Add pcrypt crypto parallelization wrapper Steffen Klassert
2009-08-19 7:15 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/5] aead: Add generic aead wrapper interface Steffen Klassert
2009-08-31 5:58 ` Herbert Xu
2009-08-31 8:45 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-05-13 13:08 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/5] pcrypt: Add pcrypt crypto parallelization wrapper Steffen Klassert
2009-05-13 13:09 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/5] eseqiv: Add support for aead algorithms Steffen Klassert
2009-05-13 13:10 ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/5] authenc: Add support for the pcrypt aead wrapper Steffen Klassert
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