From: Stephan Mueller Subject: [ANNOUNCE] libkcapi v0.12.0 released Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:54:39 +0200 Message-ID: <2974976.xU0nDqBFOZ@positron.chronox.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.eperm.de ([89.247.134.16]:47024 "EHLO mail.eperm.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932707AbcJ0Byt (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:54:49 -0400 Received: from positron.chronox.de (rrcs-97-79-174-130.sw.biz.rr.com [97.79.174.130]) by mail.eperm.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id ABFE7181607F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:54:45 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, The Linux kernel exports a network interface of type AF_ALG to allow user space to utilize the kernel crypto API. libkcapi uses this network interface and exports an easy to use API so that a developer does not need to consider the low-level network interface handling. The library does not implement any low level cipher algorithms. All consumer requests are sent to the kernel for processing. Results from the kernel crypto API are returned to the consumer via the library API. The kernel interface and therefore this library can be used by unprivileged processes. The library code archive also provides a drop-in replacement for the command line tools of sha*sum, fipscheck/fipshmac and sha512hmac. The source code and the documentation is available at [1]. [1] http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html Ciao Stephan