netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/7] esp6: Switch to new AEAD interface

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Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 15:57:59 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] esp6: Switch to new AEAD interface

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> Actually, I mean the real in-kernel crypto API: the IKE daemon would set up 
> the SA via XFRM where the rfc4106(gcm(aes)) cipher is set, is it not? So, user 
> space is responsible to set the right IPSEC cipher.
> 
> As that user space cipher name is now changed, user space would need to be 
> aware of that modification, would it not?

No the change was done in a backwards compatible way.  So if you
allocate rfc4106(gcm(aes)) and use the givencrypt interface (not
encrypt) then you still get the old behaviour.

Cheers,
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