On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:00 +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:

> yes, the card needs to support all algorithms,
> crypto_newsession() does this:
> 
>       /*
>        * The algorithm we use here is pretty stupid; just use the
>        * first driver that supports all the algorithms we need. Do
>        * a double-pass over all the drivers, ignoring software ones
>        * at first, to deal with cases of drivers that register after
>        * the software one(s) --- e.g., PCMCIA crypto cards.
>        *
>        * XXX We need more smarts here (in real life too, but that's
>        * XXX another story altogether).
>        */
> 
> -m

I was looking at this a while ago for an old setup which is still alive
for test pourpose and needed attention just for this particular case.

Thanks Christian and Markus for pointing this out.


Regards.
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