Re: [PATCH 8/8] [CRYPTO] aead: Add authenc

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:00:43PM +0300, Ronen Shitrit wrote:
>
> Is this the combined mode that was discussed on the mailing list before?

Authenc is just the first user of the crypto_aead interface.
Once IPsec moves across we will add others such as the CCM
algorithm.

> Is there a plan to add support for HW engines that can run the
> encryption and authentication as one operation?

Yep this interface will support those hardware engines.

> BTW: will the kernel IPsec patch that uses this AEAD API will be
> submitted on this mailing list as well?

It'll be submitted on netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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