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From:   Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Date:   Tue, 9 Jul 2019 14:34:21 +0300
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Subject: Re: CAVS test harness
To:     "Bhat, Jayalakshmi Manjunath" <jayalakshmi.bhat@hp.com>
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On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:44 AM Bhat, Jayalakshmi Manjunath
<jayalakshmi.bhat@hp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are working on a product that requires NIAP certification and use IPSe=
c environment for certification. IPSec functionality is achieved by third p=
arty IPsec library and native XFRM.
> Third  party IPsec library is used for ISAKMP and XFRM for IPsec.
>
> CAVS test cases are required for NIAP certification.  Thus we need to imp=
lement CAVS test harness for Third party library and Linux crypto algorithm=
s. I found the documentation on kernel crypto
> API usage.
>
> Please can you indication what is the right method to implement the test =
harness for Linux crypto algorithms.
> 1.      Should I implement CAVS test harness for Linux kernel crypto algo=
rithms as a user space application that exercise the kernel crypto API?
> 2.      Should I implement  CAVS test harness as module in Linux kernel?
>
>
> Any information on this will help me very much on implementation.

Are you sure the needed tests are not already implemented in the
kernel crypto API testmgr?

Gilad


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