From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Crypto API User-interface
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:51:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907145127.GA13027@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <421339997.1082251283870065826.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> - Don't use a FD for associated data that is limited to 16? bytes
>
> - Don't use file descriptors for input data at all, if it makes the interface so complex.
Calling into the kernel for 16 bytes of crypto is a braindead idea to
start with. To preve3nt idiots like you from abusing it we should
simply limit any userlevel crypto API to:
a) hardware crypto that is not directly user space accesible
b) page size or larger data
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1847066281.1081601283869883727.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-09-07 14:34 ` RFC: Crypto API User-interface Miloslav Trmac
2010-09-07 14:41 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-07 14:54 ` Miloslav Trmac
2014-05-30 11:22 Jitendra Lulla
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-23 10:37 Jitendra Lulla
[not found] <20101104173156.GA1255@gondor.apana.org.au>
[not found] ` <1944766358.1362881288892596101.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-11-04 18:02 ` Herbert Xu
[not found] <834983542.1086561283871074929.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-09-07 14:52 ` Miloslav Trmac
2010-09-07 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] <1590523029.1055831283858598965.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-09-07 11:27 ` Miloslav Trmac
2010-09-07 14:07 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 8:42 Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 9:18 ` Tomas Mraz
2010-09-07 14:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 14:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 14:11 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:11 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 14:39 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:39 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:49 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2010-09-07 14:57 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2010-09-07 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-19 13:44 ` Herbert Xu
2010-10-19 13:44 ` Herbert Xu
2010-10-20 10:24 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2010-11-04 17:34 ` Herbert Xu
2010-11-04 17:34 ` Herbert Xu
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100907145127.GA13027@infradead.org \
--to=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au \
--cc=linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mitr@redhat.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.