From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] [CRYPTO] aead: Add authenc Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:13:05 +0800 Message-ID: <20070830111305.GA17261@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20070830083900.GA15936@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Graf , Linux Crypto Mailing List To: Ronen Shitrit Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:3123 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755317AbXH3LNK (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:13:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:00:43PM +0300, Ronen Shitrit wrote: > > Is this the combined mode that was discussed on the mailing list before? Authenc is just the first user of the crypto_aead interface. Once IPsec moves across we will add others such as the CCM algorithm. > Is there a plan to add support for HW engines that can run the > encryption and authentication as one operation? Yep this interface will support those hardware engines. > BTW: will the kernel IPsec patch that uses this AEAD API will be > submitted on this mailing list as well? It'll be submitted on netdev@vger.kernel.org. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt