On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 4:47 AM Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > As I already mentioned in another thread somewhere, this morning in the > > shower I realised that this may be useful if you have no expectation of > > the length itself. But it's still a pretty specific use case which was > > never considered for our hardware. And our HW doesn't seem to be alone in > > this. > > Does shaXXXsum or md5sum use the kernel crypto API though? > > The ones from libkcapi do (http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html) And they can be loaded into OpenSSL through the afalg interface. Lots of potential uses cases. I would not cross my fingers no one is using them. Jeff
