Re: Proposal for adding setpubkey callback to akcipher_alg

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On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 09:33:27PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
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> I think it actually is the correct interface. And it will still stay a purely algorithmic interface. It is just that the algorithm is bound to specific hardware with a specific key. I really do not understand your distinction here.

The crypto API provides a platform where you can provide hardware
accelerated implementations for pure software algorithms.  Hardware
keys are fundamentally incompatible with that as you cannot do it
in software.

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