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From:   Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
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Subject: Re: CAVS test harness
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Am Dienstag, 9. Juli 2019, 08:43:51 CEST schrieb Bhat, Jayalakshmi Manjunath:

Hi Jayalakshmi,

> Hi All,
> 
> We are working on a product that requires NIAP certification and use IPSec
> environment for certification. IPSec functionality is achieved by third
> party 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
> implement CAVS test harness for Third party library and Linux crypto
> algorithms. 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 algorithms as a user space application that
> exercise the kernel crypto API?
> 2.	Should I implement  CAVS test harness as
> module in Linux kernel?

As I have implemented the full CAVS test framework I can tell you that the 
AF_ALG interface will not allow you to perform all tests required by CAVS.

Thus you need to implement your own kernel module with its own interface.
> 
> 
> Any information on this will help me very much on implementation.
> 
> Regards,
> Jayalakshmi


Ciao
Stephan