From: Pavel Roskin Subject: Re: Crypto Update for 2.6.38 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:46:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4D26381A.8040901@gnu.org> References: <20081225002020.GA2912@gondor.apana.org.au> <20090324044932.GA18245@gondor.apana.org.au> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Crypto Mailing List To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:23859 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753788Ab1AFV4J (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:56:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110106211645.GA26184@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/06/2011 04:16 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > This is also why only hash and skcipher are supported as they > are the main algorithm types supported by teh current async > drivers in the kernel. Are there any chances AEAD will be supported? Is the API extendable to allow that? If I remember correctly, the original patch was simply a port of FreeBSD /dev/crypto, which doesn't support AEAD. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin