Re: [PATCH]

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <Xine.LNX.4.44.0408052245380.20516-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:47:12 -0400 (EDT)), James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> says:

> > Would you be against a patch to cryptoapi to have access to a
> > non-scatter-list set of calls?
:
> level.  Can you demonstrate a compelling need for raw access to the
> algorithms via the API?

I would use them for
 - Privacy Extensions (RFC3041) support
 - upcoming TCP MD5 signature (RFC2385) support
since I don't see the advantage(s) of sg for allocated memories there.

--yoshfuji
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