Re: [PATCH 5/7] esp6: Switch to new AEAD interface

Herbert Xu
2015-05-22T06:46:00Z

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:40:25AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> If I may ask, where in your initial patch set is now decided that the IV
> generator is used (i.e. so that the givcrypt API is not needed any more)?

Please see

https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org/msg14270.html

> Do I understand it correctly that you want to retire the givcrypt API
> entirely?

Correct. IV generation will be carried as normal AEAD algorithms.

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