Re: [PATCH 0/14] crypto: aead - Phase oute seqniv

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On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:46:00PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Am Freitag, 10. Juli 2015, 21:38:02 schrieb Herbert Xu:
> 
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> >On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 12:19:53PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> >> All GCM implementations available on recent Intel systems successfully
> >> tested (i.e NX and CAAM not tested).
> >> 
> >> Just to clarify: from a caller's perspective, using
> >> seqniv(rfc4106(gcm(aes))) is still the right invocation? Or shall I now
> >> use seqiv?
> >
> >You should use seqiv from now on.  But I should update the patches
> >so that seqniv is not visible to user-space.
> 
> In this case, wouldn't xfrm_algo.c need to be changed too?

I will change it once the conversion is complete.  For now seqniv
is identical to seqiv for kernel users so it'll continue to work.

Cheers,
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