Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:10:08 +0200 | From | "Francis Moreau" <> | Subject | Re: [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ? |
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On 4/14/07, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > hmm yes indeed it should do the job, but I don't see how you do that. > > For example, let say I want to use "aes-foo" with eCryptfs. I can give > > a higher priority to "aes-foo" than "aes" one. When eCryptfs asks for > > a aes cipher it will pass "aes" name and since "aes-foo" has a higher > > priority then the cypto core will return "aes-foo" cipher, right ? But > > in this scheme, eCryptfs has not a higher priority than other kernel > > users. How can I prevent others to use "aes-foo" ? > > You would assign "aes-foo" a lower priority and then tell eCryptfs to > use "aes-foo" instead of "aes". >
ok but do you think it's safe to assume that no others parts of the kernel will request "aes-foo" ? Remember that the main point is to optimize "aes-foo" ?
I would say that it would be better if "aes-foo" could raise a flag for example indicating to the crypto core that this algo can be instatiate only one time...
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