From: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 17:15:35 +0300
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Hi, all,

On 08/10/2017 09:39 AM, Stephan Müller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch set adds the AF_ALG user space API to externalize the
> asymmetric cipher API recently added to the kernel crypto API.

Do we have enough pros and cons so we can decide which interface to use
for exporting akcipher/kpp to user-space?

I'm willing to invest some time to make this happen.

Cheers,
ta