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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v3 02/17] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library
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> On Sep 12, 2018, at 11:39 PM, Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 13/09/18 01:45, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
> ...
>> b) Crypto that is used dynamically. This includes dm-crypt
>> (aes-xts-plain64, aes-cbc-essiv, etc), all the ALG_IF interfaces, a
>> lot of IPSEC stuff, possibly KCM, and probably many more. These will
>> get comparatively little benefit from being converted to a zinc-like
>> interface. For some of these cases, it wouldn't make any sense at all
>> to convert them. Certainly the ones that do async hardware crypto
>> using DMA engines will never look at all like zinc, even under the
>> hood.
>
> Please note, that dm-crypt now uses not only block ciphers and modes,
> but also authenticated encryption and hashes (for ESSIV and HMAC
> in authenticated composed modes) and RNG (for random IV).
> We use crypto API, including async variants (I hope correctly :)

Right. And all this is why I don’t think dm-crypt should use zinc, at least not any time soon.

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