Re: Max data limit for AEAD operation

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Hi,

Thank for reply. As such I don't have any use case. But the use case I
can think of is AEAD operation on large file using AF_ALG interface.
If user tried this he/she will get invalid TAG value.


Regards
Harsh Jain

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Herbert Xu
<herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Harsh Jain <harshjain.prof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> There is maximum limit of data which crypto user can send(in encrypt)
>> to get TAG in AEAD operations. We do not have update/final like
>> implementation for AEAD algo's. why is this so?
>
> Because our users haven't needed it so far.  Also algorithms like CCM
> cannot support such an operation.
>
> If you have a valid use case for it then I'll consider it.
>
> Cheers,
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