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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:01:03 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Exporting existing crypto API code through
 zinc
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:18:24PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> N'ack. As I mentioned in the last email, this really isn't okay, and
> mostly defeats the purpose of Zinc in the first place, adding
> complexity in a discombobulated half-baked way. Your proposal seems to
> be the worst of all worlds. Having talked to lots of people about the
> design of Zinc at this point to very positive reception, I'm going to
> move forward with submitting v9, once I rebase with the required
> changes for Eric's latest merge.

Do you have any actual technical reasons for rejecting this apart
from your apparent hatred of the existing crypto API?

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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