From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v0] Add SHA-3 hash algorithm
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:17:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506BE68E.5000004@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121003071119.GA2571@gondor.apana.org.au>
On 10/03/2012 03:11 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:53:27AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>> Maybe my patch is the best we can do in the current kernel, if
>> dynamic digest size is not currently possible. Register "sha3_224",
>> "sha3_256", ... as you describe, and wait for actual users to appear
>> with unsupported digest sizes.
>
> Let's see what people use before we do anything more fancy.
>
> If the variants really start proliferating, we can add a template
> called "trunc" and then have things like "trunc(sha3,224)", etc.
If they start proliferating, you really just want a single "sha3(n)",
one single shash_alg registered at driver init time.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-03 5:45 Jeff Garzik
2012-10-03 6:06 ` David Miller
2012-10-03 6:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-10-03 7:11 ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-03 7:17 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-04-04 0:29 ` Jeff Garzik
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