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 <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
