From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Crypto API User-interface
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:51:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907145127.GA13027@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <421339997.1082251283870065826.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> - Don't use a FD for associated data that is limited to 16? bytes
>
> - Don't use file descriptors for input data at all, if it makes the interface so complex.
Calling into the kernel for 16 bytes of crypto is a braindead idea to
start with. To preve3nt idiots like you from abusing it we should
simply limit any userlevel crypto API to:
a) hardware crypto that is not directly user space accesible
b) page size or larger data
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-09-07 14:34 ` RFC: Crypto API User-interface Miloslav Trmac
2010-09-07 14:41 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-07 14:54 ` Miloslav Trmac
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2010-09-07 14:52 ` Miloslav Trmac
2010-09-07 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2010-09-07 11:27 ` Miloslav Trmac
2010-09-07 14:07 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 8:42 Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 9:18 ` Tomas Mraz
2010-09-07 14:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 14:11 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 14:39 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-07 14:49 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2010-09-07 14:57 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2010-09-07 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-19 13:44 ` Herbert Xu
2010-10-20 10:24 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2010-11-04 17:34 ` Herbert Xu
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