Re: [PATCH 5/7] esp6: Switch to new AEAD interface

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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> Actually, I mean the real in-kernel crypto API: the IKE daemon would set up 
> the SA via XFRM where the rfc4106(gcm(aes)) cipher is set, is it not? So, user 
> space is responsible to set the right IPSEC cipher.
> 
> As that user space cipher name is now changed, user space would need to be 
> aware of that modification, would it not?

No the change was done in a backwards compatible way.  So if you
allocate rfc4106(gcm(aes)) and use the givencrypt interface (not
encrypt) then you still get the old behaviour.

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