linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Exporting existing crypto API code through zinc

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20181121060103.4s2byjn2fh2mglno@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:01:03 +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>,
        Martin Willi <martin@...ongswan.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Exporting existing crypto API code through
 zinc

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:18:24PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> N'ack. As I mentioned in the last email, this really isn't okay, and
> mostly defeats the purpose of Zinc in the first place, adding
> complexity in a discombobulated half-baked way. Your proposal seems to
> be the worst of all worlds. Having talked to lots of people about the
> design of Zinc at this point to very positive reception, I'm going to
> move forward with submitting v9, once I rebase with the required
> changes for Eric's latest merge.

Do you have any actual technical reasons for rejecting this apart
from your apparent hatred of the existing crypto API?

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt