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Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:45:58 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] General Key Derivation Function Support
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 03:39:10PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2019, 11:08:54 CET schrieb Herbert Xu:
> 
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> > I'm still not convinced why this needs to go into the crypto API
> > instead of being hosted in a helper which should achieve pretty
> > much the same result.
> 
> How do you propose to handle the FIPS 140-2 related requirements of enforcing 
> the integrity test result and the known-answer self tests?

We could easily add self-tests for the helper.

Cheers,
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