linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v0] Add SHA-3 hash algorithm

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Message-ID: <20121003071119.GA2571@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:11:19 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v0] Add SHA-3 hash algorithm

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:53:27AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Maybe my patch is the best we can do in the current kernel, if
> dynamic digest size is not currently possible. Register "sha3_224",
> "sha3_256", ... as you describe, and wait for actual users to appear
> with unsupported digest sizes.

Let's see what people use before we do anything more fancy.

If the variants really start proliferating, we can add a template
called "trunc" and then have things like "trunc(sha3,224)", etc.

Cheers,
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