On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 05:27:15PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > But according to Tadeusz it may be viable to register hybrid asym ciphers with > the akcipher API. If there is a full blown hybrid asym cipher we have to > handle potentially large chunks of data. I am now wondering whether a flat > buffer still makes sense or whether the akcipher should be converted to > scatter lists as all the other cipher types. > > If it shall stay as is, how would we be handling larger buffers? What is a hybrid cipher and why would we want to have it in the kernel? 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
