linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] zinc chacha20 generic implementation using crypto API code

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Message-ID: <20181119062208.jbd3nl2c6jkicyxl@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:22:08 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Crowley <paulcrowley@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kaiser <gkaiser@...gle.com>,
        Samuel Neves <samuel.c.p.neves@...il.com>,
        Tomer Ashur <tomer.ashur@...t.kuleuven.be>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] zinc chacha20 generic implementation using crypto
 API code

Hi Jason:

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:13:07AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> Sorry, but there isn't a chance I'll agree to this. The whole idea is
> to have a clean place to focus on synchronous software
> implementations, and not keep it tangled up with the asynchronous API.

There is nothing asynchronous in the relevant crypto code at all.
The underlying CPU-based software implementations are all completely
synchronous, including the architecture-specific ones such as
x86/arm.

So I don't understand why you are rejecting it.

Cheers,
-- 
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