From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:21:20 +1000

> [CRYPTO] api: Allow algorithm lookup by type
> 
> This patch also adds the infrastructure to pick an algorithm based on
> their type.  For example, this allows you to select the encryption
> algorithm "aes", instead of any algorithm registered under the name
> "aes".  For now this is only accessible internally.  Eventually it
> will be made available through crypto_alloc_tfm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This has been pending for a long time :)  You presented these ideas
in Montreal netconf, and were thinking about a very long time
before that.  In fact, this can be probably traced back to James
Morris.


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