Hi: These two patches introduce a new skcipher interface that aims to replace the existing blkcipher and ablkcipher interfaces. A bit of history, the blkcipher interface was originally split from the cipher interface in order to differentiate the underly block cipher algorithm from the modes such as ECB/CBC. Later ablkcipher was added in order to support hardware devices. Unlike the shash/ahash split, both blkcipher and ablkcipher operate on SG lists. Therefore there is really no need to maintain them as separate interfaces. The new skcipher interface is essentially identical to ablkcipher but without the implicit IV generators that have been rendered obsolete by the new AEAD interface. The next step in the process is to convert existing users over to skcipher. 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
