From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Mueller Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 1/2] crypto: AF_ALG: add AEAD support Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:10:58 +0100 Message-ID: <7821728.KTX1G67VgF@tachyon.chronox.de> References: <1681008.mocmysOoQU@tachyon.chronox.de> <2035690.30evPElJOm@tachyon.chronox.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: 'Quentin Gouchet' , Daniel Borkmann , 'LKML' , linux-crypto-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, 'Linux API' To: 'Herbert Xu' Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2035690.30evPElJOm-PJstQz4BMNNP20K/wil9xYQuADTiUCJX@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2015, 21:24:45 schrieb Stephan Mueller: Hi Herbert, > This patch adds the AEAD support for AF_ALG. > > The implementation is based on algif_skcipher, but contains heavy > modifications to streamline the interface for AEAD uses. > > To use AEAD, the user space consumer has to use the salg_type named > "aead". I just saw Al Viro's patch to use the iov_iter API in algif_skcipher.c. I looked at it but lacked documentation for using it properly. Now I have a template that I will incorporate into algif_aead.c -- Ciao Stephan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757744AbbBEPLF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 10:11:05 -0500 Received: from mail.eperm.de ([89.247.134.16]:60209 "EHLO mail.eperm.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753452AbbBEPLD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 10:11:03 -0500 X-AuthUser: sm@eperm.de From: Stephan Mueller To: "'Herbert Xu'" Cc: "'Quentin Gouchet'" , Daniel Borkmann , "'LKML'" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "'Linux API'" Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 1/2] crypto: AF_ALG: add AEAD support Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:10:58 +0100 Message-ID: <7821728.KTX1G67VgF@tachyon.chronox.de> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <2035690.30evPElJOm@tachyon.chronox.de> References: <1681008.mocmysOoQU@tachyon.chronox.de> <2035690.30evPElJOm@tachyon.chronox.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2015, 21:24:45 schrieb Stephan Mueller: Hi Herbert, > This patch adds the AEAD support for AF_ALG. > > The implementation is based on algif_skcipher, but contains heavy > modifications to streamline the interface for AEAD uses. > > To use AEAD, the user space consumer has to use the salg_type named > "aead". I just saw Al Viro's patch to use the iov_iter API in algif_skcipher.c. I looked at it but lacked documentation for using it properly. Now I have a template that I will incorporate into algif_aead.c -- Ciao Stephan