Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263837AbTEOFwj (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 01:52:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263845AbTEOFwj (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 01:52:39 -0400 Received: from blackbird.intercode.com.au ([203.32.101.10]:55824 "EHLO blackbird.intercode.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263837AbTEOFwh (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 01:52:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:04:54 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Jouni Malinen cc: Jeff Garzik , Dave Jones , , Linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , David Gibson , Benjamin Reed , Javier Achirica Subject: Re: CryptoAPI and WEP/stream ciphers (was: airo and firmware upload) In-Reply-To: <20030515042143.GA1918@jm.kir.nu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1305 Lines: 38 On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jouni Malinen wrote: > I tried to change my WEP implementation to use CryptoAPI, but that ended > up in problems.. If I understood correctly, current CryptoAPI supports > only block ciphers(?). Block ciphers and digests. > certainly does not sound very reasonable.. Another alternative would be > to add support for stream ciphers into CryptoAPI. Yes, it would be good to have API support for stream encryption in general, e.g. also for OFB and Counter Mode. > Do you think that it would still be required to get rid of the own WEP > implementation in the Host AP driver before including it into the kernel > tree? Would this mean that someone would first need to add support for > stream ciphers into CryptoAPI? Any change of that happening for Linux > 2.6.x? I'd like to see it go in if the code is available. > And one more question before using more time with WEP implementation.. > Is someone already working with stream cipher support for CryptoAPI? Not that I know of. - James -- James Morris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/