Re: Question about async operations

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Dimitrios Siganos <dimitris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about the asynchronous characteristics of the crypto api.
> 
> 1) crypto_alloc_hash("sha1", 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC), does this code create 
> an asynchronous sha1 transform?

crypto_alloc_hash is obsolete.  New code should either use shash
or ahash.  Only the latter supports async operations.

You can look at crypto/authenc.c for an example of how it's used.

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