linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] crypto/krb5: Provide Kerberos 5 crypto through AEAD API

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Message-ID: <Z4D2uC-kcSzQJS-H@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:30:16 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] crypto/krb5: Provide Kerberos 5 crypto through
 AEAD API

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:26:38AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>
> However the point of having a library is to abstract those details from the
> callers.  You wanted me to rewrite the library as AEAD algorithms, which I
> have done as far as I can.  This makes the object for each kerberos enctype
> look the same from the PoV of the clients.

I think there is some misunderstanding here.  For a library outside
of the Crypto API you can do whatever you want.

I only suggested AEAD because I thought you wanted to bring this within
the Crypto API.

Cheers,
-- 
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