On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 09:33:27PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > I think it actually is the correct interface. And it will still stay a purely > algorithmic interface. It is just that the algorithm is bound to specific > hardware with a specific key. I really do not understand your distinction > here.
The crypto API provides a platform where you can provide hardware accelerated implementations for pure software algorithms. Hardware keys are fundamentally incompatible with that as you cannot do it in software. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
