linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 02/17] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library

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Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:01:49 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Samuel Neves <sneves@....uc.pt>,
        Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 02/17] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library

Hi Andy,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 5:01 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> I think Ard’s point is valid: in the long run we don’t want two competing software implementations of each primitive. It clearly *should* be possible to make crypto API call into zinc for synchronous software operations, but a demonstration of how this actually works and that there isn’t some change to zinc to make it would well would be in order, I think.
>
> IMO the right approach is do one conversion right away and save the rest for later.

Alright, I'll go ahead and do this for v4. Thanks for the guidance.

Jason