On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:05:00PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > What if dm-crypt will use the same interface (or other bulk-processing > user) will use it with software crypto? Or was it specially designed for > ipsec only? dm-crypt (when we convert it to using givcrypt instead of its own hard-coded IV generators) will specify the IV generators explicitly which would bypass chainiv. > I.e. it is an ipsec helper only and should not be used by other users? Yes new applications should use explicit IV generators. As I said I wouldn't be against changing the default for sync away from chainiv if something more appropriate comes up. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
