From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] fscrypt: use HKDF-SHA512 to derive the per-inode
 encryption keys
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:07:54 +0800
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:54:55PM +0200, Stephan M?ller wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2017, 23:00:32 CEST schrieb Eric Biggers:
> 
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> This patch adds a second KDF to the kernel -- the first is found in the keys 
> subsystem.
> 
> The next KDF that may come in is in the TLS scope.
> 
> Would it make sense to warm up the KDF patches adding generic KDF support to 
> the kernel crypto API that I supplied some time ago? The advantages would be 
> to have one location of KDF implementations and the benefit of the testmgr.

Sure.  Though I'd like to see what it looks like before I commit :)

Thanks,
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