Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API

Am Montag, 14. August 2017, 08:26:22 CEST schrieb Marcel Holtmann:

Hi Marcel,

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The first part is clearly where AF_ALG fits and keyctl does not. This is
provided with the current patch set. As the keyctl API only handles, well,
keys, access to the raw ciphers may not be possible through this API. And
let us face it, a lot of user space code shall support many different
OSes. Thus, if you have a crypto lib in user space who has its own key
management (which is a core element of such libraries and thus cannot be
put into an architecture-dependent code part), having only the keyctl API
on Linux for accelerated asym support may not be helpful.

That argument is just non-sense.

How interesting. For example, what about NSS with its own key database?

Ciao
Stephan