netdev - Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:20:49 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...encehorizons.net>
Cc:	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	luto@...capital.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack
 crash, etc)

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:32:12AM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> 
> - struct crypto_instance
> - struct crypto_spawn
> - struct crypto_blkcipher
> - struct blkcipher_desc
> - More on the context structures returned by crypto_tfm_ctx

blkcipher is obsolete and will be removed soon.  So if you are
going to write this then please document skcipher instead.

> Also not mentioned in the documentation is that some algorithms *do*
> have different implementations depending on key size.  SHA-2 is the
> classic example.

What do you mean by that? SHA has no keying at all.

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