From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: Crypto Update for 2.6.38 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:49:55 +1100 Message-ID: <20110106214955.GA26781@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20091204135530.GA29371@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100226004914.GA20812@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100519020603.GA19654@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100521104404.GA29530@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100804140448.GA4042@gondor.apana.org.au> <20101024061625.GA23715@gondor.apana.org.au> <20110106000157.GA16089@gondor.apana.org.au> <20110106211645.GA26184@gondor.apana.org.au> <4D26381A.8040901@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Crypto Mailing List To: Pavel Roskin Return-path: Received: from helcar.apana.org.au ([209.40.204.226]:51520 "EHLO fornost.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752450Ab1AFVuC (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:50:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D26381A.8040901@gnu.org> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 04:46:02PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Are there any chances AEAD will be supported? Is the API extendable to > allow that? Yes we can support AEAD. However, as there weren't any existing user-space users that could benefit immediately, I have not added it at this point in time. When combined-mode support in async hardware becomes more common this could change of course. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt