Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hardware Crypto

2017-08-13 Thread Sandy Harris
Showing only the key parts of the message: > From: John Gilmore An exceedingly knowledgeable guy, one we should probably take seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist) > Most hardware crypto accelerators are useless, ... > ... you might as well have > just

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

2017-08-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Stephan, > >>> AF_ALG is best suited for crypto use cases where a socket is set up once >>> and there are lots of reads and writes to justify the setup cost. With >>> asymmetric crypto, the setup cost is high when

[PATCH] crypto: sahara: constify platform_device_id

2017-08-13 Thread Arvind Yadav
platform_device_id are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions working with platform_device_id provided by work with const platform_device_id. So mark the non-const structs as const. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav --- drivers/crypto/sahara.c | 2 +- 1 file