From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: algif_akcipher Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 16:57:14 +0800 Message-ID: <20160905085714.GA30191@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1708704.H7uTHYKb98@positron.chronox.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Mueller Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:60595 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752268AbcIEI5u (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2016 04:57:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1708704.H7uTHYKb98@positron.chronox.de> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 04:06:43PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Hi Herbert, David, > > may I inquire for the plans with algif_akcipher? The reason I am asking is > whether this interface may be accepted or whether a key rings based solution > is used and whether I can leave or remove the akcipher related API from my > libkcapi. I do plan to add something like this eventually. However, at this point in time I'd like to see akcipher itself mature a bit before we set it in stone with a user-space interface. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt