From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 02/17] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:01:49 -0600
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Hi Andy,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 5:01 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote=
:
> I think Ard=E2=80=99s point is valid: in the long run we don=E2=80=99t wa=
nt two competing software implementations of each primitive. It clearly *sh=
ould* be possible to make crypto API call into zinc for synchronous softwar=
e operations, but a demonstration of how this actually works and that there=
 isn=E2=80=99t some change to zinc to make it would well would be in order,=
 I think.
>
> IMO the right approach is do one conversion right away and save the rest =
for later.

Alright, I'll go ahead and do this for v4. Thanks for the guidance.

Jason