Status of shash

Status of shash

[Emanuele Cesena]

Hi all,

I'd like to better understand the future plans for shash.

Currently I can see that (please correct me if I'm wrong):
- all the hash algorithms are migrated to shash
- most of the kernel code uses the ahash API
- still some pieces are using the hash API (e.g. IMA)

I want to build a module on top of hash tfm API. 
What should I use? I guess ahash.

In fact I don't need async, while I'd like export/import functions.
So, can I already use shash? 
What about the (near) future? Is it better (for sync) to use hash, or to
wait for shash [*], or to use ahash in any case?


BTW, should IMA be converted to ahash?
This could be a good exercise to start...

Best,

[*] I made some preliminary tests and shash gave me some problems.
Further, looking at the code, it seems it is not yet completely
implemented w.r.t. the tfm API.
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Re: Status of shash

[Herbert Xu]

Emanuele Cesena <emanuele.cesena@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In fact I don't need async, while I'd like export/import functions.

If you are processing a large (i.e., > 1000 bytes) amount of data,
then you should use the async interface.  Otherwise the sync
interface should be good enough.

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