Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API

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Am Montag, 14. August 2017, 08:26:22 CEST schrieb Marcel Holtmann:

Hi Marcel,

> > The first part is clearly where AF_ALG fits and keyctl does not. This is
> > provided with the current patch set. As the keyctl API only handles, well,
> > keys, access to the raw ciphers may not be possible through this API. And
> > let us face it, a lot of user space code shall support many different
> > OSes. Thus, if you have a crypto lib in user space who has its own key
> > management (which is a core element of such libraries and thus cannot be
> > put into an architecture-dependent code part), having only the keyctl API
> > on Linux for accelerated asym support may not be helpful.
> 
> That argument is just non-sense.

How interesting. For example, what about NSS with its own key database?

Ciao
Stephan



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