Re: [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ?

[Herbert Xu]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> hmm yes indeed it should do the job, but I don't see how you do that.
> For example, let say I want to use "aes-foo" with eCryptfs. I can give
> a higher priority to "aes-foo" than "aes" one. When eCryptfs asks for
> a aes cipher it will pass "aes" name and since "aes-foo" has a higher
> priority then the cypto core will return "aes-foo" cipher, right ? But
> in this scheme, eCryptfs has not a higher priority than other kernel
> users. How can I prevent others to use "aes-foo" ?

You would assign "aes-foo" a lower priority and then tell eCryptfs to
use "aes-foo" instead of "aes".

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