Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?

James Morris
2003-08-10T14:46:18Z

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, David S. Miller wrote:

> > Also, I posted to cryptoapi-devel that I need a way to disable the
> > unconditional padding on the hash functions.
>
> James, comments?

Yes, a flag could be added for crypto_alloc_tfm() which disables padding
for digests (e.g. CRYPTO_TFM_DIGEST_NOPAD).

Given that there are a still a number of unresolved issues, e.g. making
the crypto api (or a subset thereof) mandatory, perhaps it would be more
appropriate to slate these changes for 2.7 and then backport to 2.6 once
stable.

- James
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