On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 03:52:27PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 22:56:26 schrieb Herbert Xu: > > > In fact AEAD is rather awkward because you need to do everything > > in one go. Perhaps we could adapt our kernel interface to allow > > partial AEAD operations? > > > I am not sure what you are referring to. The invocation does not need to be in > one go. You can have arbitrary number of sendmsg calls. But all input data > needs to be supplied before you call recvmsg. What I mean is that unlike skcipher we cannot precede until we have the complete input. So you cannot begin recvmsg until all input has been sent. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <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
