Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2015, 15:21:45 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, >This patch introduces the crypto skcipher interface which aims >to replace both blkcipher and ablkcipher. > >It's very similar to the existing ablkcipher interface. The >main difference is the removal of the givcrypt interface. In >order to make the transition easier for blkcipher users, there >is a helper SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK which can be used to place >a request on the stack for synchronous transforms. If I understand the patch set correctly, a caller uses the skcipher API and the API sets up the synchronous or asynchronous callbacks depending on the chosen cipher implementation. Now, does a caller always need to create an skcipher_request and always need the async logic of providing a callback function and the like, even though a synchronous cipher is chosen? I.e. the caller has no means to use a synchronous cipher operation any more. It looks to me like that, but I would like to confirm. Thank you. Ciao Stephan -- 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
