Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add file-system authentication to BTRFS

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On 01/05/2020 08:03, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:58:57PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>>
>> There was interest in also using a HMAC version of Blake2b from the community,
>> but as none of the crypto libraries used by user-space BTRFS tools as a
>> backend does currently implement a HMAC version with Blake2b, it is not (yet)
>> included.
> 
> Note that BLAKE2b optionally takes a key, so using HMAC with it is unnecessary.
> 
> And the kernel crypto API's implementation of BLAKE2b already supports this.
> I.e. you can call crypto_shash_setkey() directly on "blake2b-256".

Oh thanks for letting me know.




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