Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto: engine - Permit to enqueue skcipher request

Stephan Müller
2017-06-06T14:09:05Z

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.

Ciao
Stephan