> The Linux kernel exports a network interface of type AF_ALG to allow user > space to utilize the kernel crypto API. libkcapi uses this network interface > and exports an easy to use API so that a developer does not need to consider > the low-level network interface handling. > > The library does not implement any low level cipher algorithms. All consumer > requests are sent to the kernel for processing. Results from the kernel crypto > API are returned to the consumer via the library API. > > The kernel interface and therefore this library can be used by unprivileged > processes. > > The library code archive also provides a drop-in replacement for the command > line tools of sha*sum, fipscheck/fipshmac and sha512hmac. > > The source code and the documentation is available at [1]. That looks awesome Stephan. How can user code reliably detect when the API is available? Are there any preprocessor macros to guard code paths in userland? What are the preprocessor macros we can use to guard it? Jeff -- 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
