Dean Jenkins <djenkins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can anyone explain the difference between aead.ko and authenc.ko ? AEAD is a type of crypto algorithms, just like cipher or hash. Authenc is a particular AEAD algorithm, just like AES is a cipher or SHA is a hash. > How does crypto decide to use aead.ko instead of authenc.ko ? I am guessing it > is something to do with XFRM ? Well IPsec uses the AEAD interface so it loads the aead.ko due to symbol dependencies. The authenc module is loaded if the user specifies a normal block cipher and hash algorithm. 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
