Re: [RFC PATCH 4.10 1/6] crypto/sha256: Refactor the API so it can be used without shash
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Dec 26 2016 - 02:58:43 EST
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 09:57:53AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> I actually do use incremental hashing later on. BPF currently
> vmallocs() a big temporary buffer just so it can fill it and hash it.
> I change it to hash as it goes.
How much data is this supposed to hash on average? If it's a large
amount then perhaps using the existing crypto API would be a better
option than adding this.
Cheers,
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