Hi, On 07/26/2016 04:54 AM, Stephan Mueller wrote: >> > Is it true that the key (defined via setsockopt) is common to all the >> > connections but the IV (defined through message control header) is >> > specific to each connection ? > Yes. I think that's not correct. Please define a "connection". If you think of connections as separate sockets, then you can have different keys for each socket. The difference is that you set a key per each socket once, and you send IV for each operation (encrypt/decrypt). Thanks, -- TS -- 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