netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/9] ipv6: sr: add core files for SR HMAC support

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Message-ID: <58061083.7020609@uclouvain.be>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:07:31 +0200
From:   David Lebrun <david.lebrun@...ouvain.be>
To:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
CC:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] ipv6: sr: add core files for SR HMAC support

On 10/17/2016 07:24 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> A lot of this looks generic and potentially useful in other cases
> where we we want to do HMAC over some headers (I'm thinking GUE can
> probably use some of this for header authentication). Might be nice to
> split out the generic pieces at some point.

How would you see this integrated generically ? Directly into the crypto
subsystem ? The idea is interesting anyway, I can work on that after
this patch series goes through.


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