Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:53:04 -0600 | From | Tom Lendacky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] crypto: Documentation - crypto API high level spec |
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On 11/03/2014 08:49 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:18:29PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: >> >>>> + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST Raw message digest >>>> + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_HASH Alias for CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST >>>> + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_SHASH Synchronous multi-block hash >>>> + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AHASH Asynchronous multi-block hash >>>> + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_RNG Random Number Generation >>>> + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_PCOMPRESS >>> >>> What's that last one? >> >> Same here. > > pcompress is an enhanced version of compress allowing for piece-meal > compression/decompression rather than having to shove everything in > all at once. > > Eventually pcompress should replace the compress interface once > everything is converted across.
Herbert, I was looking at adding async support for ALG_TYPE_COMPRESS since the CCP device will support compression/decompression but only as an everything at once invocation. Given what you're saying about pcompress replacing compress, would this be something you'd even consider though?
Thanks, Tom
> > Thanks, >
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