Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sun Oct 18 2015 - 21:33:13 EST


On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch set adds the AF_ALG user space API to externalize the
> asymmetric cipher API recently added to the kernel crypto API.
>
> The patch set is tested with the user space library of libkcapi [1].
> Use [1] test/test.sh for a full test run. The test covers the
> following scenarios:

Thanks Stephan. But I would prefer to defer this til after we have
completed the conversion of current in-kernel users. This is because
changing the kernel interface is easy while changing the user-space
interface is not.

Cheers,
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