From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:20:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4C81122C.3050800@gmail.com> References: <1282293963-27807-1-git-send-email-mitr@redhat.com> <1282293963-27807-2-git-send-email-mitr@redhat.com> <20100903091842.GC28952@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?UTF-8?B?TWlsb3NsYXYgVHJtYcSN?= , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ted Ts'o , Miloslav Trmac To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:50003 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752244Ab0ICPUQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:20:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100903091842.GC28952@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/03/2010 11:18 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > I will be looking at this myself so please stay tuned and be ready > to yell if you see that your requirements are not met. On 08/20/2010 03:56 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > So I'm bit at a list what's the whole point of this patch series. > Could you explain that in the documentation, please? Especially for > crypto, explaining when something should be used, what the threat > model is, etc., is often very important. Hello, The document discussing the model, threats and design goals of this framework can be found at: https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-1490.pdf Comments and suggestions are welcome. regards, Nikos PS. The existing (proposed) implementation covers about 90% of the design goals, the rest are work in progress.