Re: [PATCH 0/17] Add zinc using existing algorithm implementations

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Mon Mar 25 2019 - 06:45:39 EST


On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:43 AM Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> onto a synchronous interface. My concern is that we will end up with
> Zinc patches 12 months from now that implement async interfaces to
> support some particular piece of hardware, while other hardware is
> only supported by the crypto/ API, even though the algorithm they
> implement is the same.

Allow me to allay that concern: Zinc is for simple synchronous
software functions.