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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:08:35 +0100
From:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	'Quentin Gouchet' <quentin.gouchet@...il.com>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] crypto: AF_ALG: add AEAD support

Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014, 22:58:50 schrieb Herbert Xu:

Hi Herbert,

>On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 03:58:34PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>> Ok. But in the code you see that skcipher is a 100% subset of AEAD.
>> For AEAD, all we need to do in addition to normal symmetric ciphers
>> is to select the AEAD kernel crypto API calls, to locate and use the
>> AD and to ensure we have the right memory size to process the tag.
>
>There is still one fundamental difference between AEAD and ciphers.
>Namely that ciphers can operate as you go while AEAD requests must
>be done in one lot.  So that should make the AEAD code simpler vs.
>ciphers.

Yes, that is a key difference.
>
>I think the best course of action for now is to start with sharing
>no code and then chop bits off as we see fit.

Ok, I will create a new patch set with a separate algif_aead.c. I guess 
the entire sgl handling logic will be gone in AEAD.
>
>Cheers,


Ciao
Stephan
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