On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:24:49AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote: > > Okay, just to be sure, what does "Asynchronous" mean in ablkcipher or > ahash ? > Is it related to the fact that crypto operations can be done in > multiple steps (e.g.: one set_key + several encrypt chunk operations), > or is this something else ?
It gives you the ability to postpone the processing. However it doesn't mean that you have to postpone the processing. For instance, all of our sync software algorithms are also available through the async interface for obvious reasons. 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
