From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
To: "Stephan Müller" <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher request
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:24:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170606142422.GA24141@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1595132.gd3LNaoxir@tauon.chronox.de>
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 04:07:25PM +0200, Stephan Müller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 6. Juni 2017, 15:44:17 CEST schrieb Corentin Labbe:
>
> Hi Corentin,
>
> > The crypto engine could actually only enqueue hash and ablkcipher request.
> > This patch permit it to enqueue skcipher requets by adding all necessary
> > functions.
> > The only problem is that ablkcipher and skcipher id are the same, so
> > only one cipher type is usable on the same crypto engine.
>
> Why do you think this is needed? I thought that skcipher is the successor to
> ablkcipher AND blkcipher. I.e. ablkcipher and blkcipher should be phased out.
> Thus, I would infer that any ablkcipher support should or could be dropped.
>
There are two user of it, crypto/omap and crypto/virtio.
And for crypto/omap, I have no way of testing any convertion to skcipher (no hardware).
Regards
Corentin Labbe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-06 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-06 13:44 [PATCH v2 0/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher request Corentin Labbe
2017-06-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] crypto: engine - replace pr_xxx by dev_xxx Corentin Labbe
2017-06-19 6:46 ` Herbert Xu
2017-06-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher request Corentin Labbe
2017-06-06 14:07 ` Stephan Müller
2017-06-06 14:24 ` Corentin Labbe [this message]
2017-06-19 5:27 ` Herbert Xu
2017-06-19 7:55 ` Corentin Labbe
2017-06-23 6:48 ` Herbert Xu
2017-07-14 11:15 ` Corentin Labbe
2017-07-28 13:52 ` Herbert Xu
2017-07-28 15:01 ` Corentin Labbe
2017-08-09 9:40 ` Corentin Labbe
2017-08-21 15:07 ` Herbert Xu
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