- Subject: Re: CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC
- From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:47:36 +1000
- Cc: linux-crypto <linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- In-reply-to: <CALLzPKZWvFvPeA2ZKkRBPKA9WK7oDtzymDmG4Y-u=pmq8khXNA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:31:10PM +0300, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>
> But why do we need it for AHASH or ABLKCIPHER?
> It is obvious without it that they can be async?
It makes sense for ahash/ablkcipher since even though you're
using the async API you can still request for a sync implementation.
Cheers,
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