Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1546774

Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms

From Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms
Date 2016-12-23 09:00 +0100
Message-ID <sRsVH-41t-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <sNR6h-7sY-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <sNR6h-7sY-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <sNSc1-8lZ-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <sR7oe-75y-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <sR9gl-8pD-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 04:25:12PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote:
>
> > It doesn't have to live outside of dm-crypt.  You can register
> > these IV generators from there if you really want.
> 
> Sorry, but I didn't understand this part.

What I mean is that moving the IV generators into the crypto API
does not mean the dm-crypt team giving up control over them.  You
could continue to keep them within the dm-crypt code base and
still register them through the normal crypto API mechanism.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

[RFC PATCH v2] IV Generation algorithms for dm-crypt Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-13 10:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 11:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-14 07:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-16 07:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-22 10:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-22 12:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-23 09:00 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2016-12-29 10:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-30 11:30 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2017-01-02 07:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-01-02 08:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> - 2017-01-02 08:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2] crypto: Add IV generation algorithms Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> - 2017-01-03 15:30 +0100

csiph-web