Re: [RFC PATCH] zinc chacha20 generic implementation using crypto API code

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Nov 19 2018 - 01:22:30 EST


Hi Jason:

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:13:07AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> Sorry, but there isn't a chance I'll agree to this. The whole idea is
> to have a clean place to focus on synchronous software
> implementations, and not keep it tangled up with the asynchronous API.

There is nothing asynchronous in the relevant crypto code at all.
The underlying CPU-based software implementations are all completely
synchronous, including the architecture-specific ones such as
x86/arm.

So I don't understand why you are rejecting it.

Cheers,
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