From: Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 00/23] WireGuard: Secure Network Tunnel Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:53:07 +0200 Message-ID: <7854782.OKhPC64esT@blindfold> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Richard Weinberger , Eric Biggers , Ard Biesheuvel , Herbert Xu , LKML , Netdev , Linux Crypto Mailing List , David Miller , Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2018, 15:46:29 CEST schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:38 PM Richard Weinberger > wrote: > > So we will have two competing crypo stacks in the kernel? > > Having a lightweight crypto API is a good thing but I really don't like the idea > > of having zinc parallel to the existing crypto stack. > > No, as you've seen in this patchset, the dynamic dispatch crypto API > can trivially be done on top of Zinc. So each time we introduce a new > primitive to Zinc that's also in the dynamic dispatch API, we > reimplement the current crypto API in terms of Zinc. Check out the two > patches in this series that do this; it's quite clean and sleek. This is why I was asking. Your statement and the code didn't match for me. > > And I strongly vote that Herbert Xu shall remain the maintainer of the whole > > crypto system (including zinc!) in the kernel. > > No, sorry, we intend to maintain the code we've written. But I am > amenable to taking a tree-route into upstream based on whatever makes > most sense with merge conflicts and such. So, you will be a sub-maintainer below Herbert's crypto, that's fine. What you wrote sounded like a parallel world... Thanks, //richard