From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: Are there any drivers that use aead.ko Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:57:31 +0800 Message-ID: References: <200811071040.38853.djenkins@mvista.com> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: djenkins@mvista.com (Dean Jenkins) Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:35132 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751033AbYKJG5d (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:57:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200811071040.38853.djenkins@mvista.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dean Jenkins wrote: > > Are there any example drivers that make use of aead.ko ? drivers/crypto/talitos > Is it true that an AEAD driver can perform encryption and hashing in a single > call ? Apparently yes according to Bilbo. > I assume aead.ko is designed for hardware crypto drivers that can do both > encryption and hashing concurrently. Am I correct ? That's one application. Another reason is to support combined- mode algorithms. 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