Re: How to detect availability of asynchronous ciphers at runtime?

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On 26.03.2016 20:06, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Please forgive my ignorance here... I'm trying to detect the
> availability of asynchronous ciphers support at runtime. The back
> story is there's some feature tests going on based on hard coded
> kernel version numbers (namely, 4.1). I feel like there's probably a
> better way to go about it.
> 
> It seems like 'socket(AF_ALG, ...)' is not enough since that only
> detects availability of userland crypto support.
> 
> How do I detect the availability of asynchronous ciphers at runtime?
> 
> Thank you in advance.

Try this method:

# cat /proc/crypto | egrep '^(name|driver|async|$)'

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With best wishes,
Vladimir

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