Am Donnerstag, 20. November 2014, 12:07:48 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 05:03:24AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > crypto_user cannot be applied to the currently active cipher that one has > > open with AF_ALG. For getting information, one has to call crypto_user > > with the cra_driver_name of a cipher. (Why is that limitation, btw (see > > crypto_report and the use of cru_driver_name?) > > It doesn't matter because every implementation must supply exactly > the same parameters as the reference implementation or it's buggy. > IOW block size, IV size, supported key sizes etc. are intrinsic > properties of the algorithm and not the implementation. > I totally understand that. But you cannot supply a cra_name to crypto-user to get infos of that cipher as it is currently written. You have to use a cra_driver_name. So, when I use a cra_name with AF_ALG, where would I get the cra_driver_name from to query the details from crypto_user? Or we have to patch crypto_user to allow the use of cra_name -- which is currently explicitly disabled. > Cheers, -- Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
