Re: [PATCH net-next v3 02/17] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library

Hi Eric, Andy,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 5:01 PM Andy Lutomirski [off-list ref] wrote:

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I think Ard’s point is valid: in the long run we don’t want two competing software implementations of each primitive. It clearly *should* be possible to make crypto API call into zinc for synchronous software operations, but a demonstration of how this actually works and that there isn’t some change to zinc to make it would well would be in order, I think.

IMO the right approach is do one conversion right away and save the rest for later.

It turned out to be fairly straight forward and quick to do. I'm on a
transatlantic plane so the connection is super spotty, but you can
check out the three commits added to:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zx2c4/linux.git/log?h=jd/wireguard>
-- the two "crypto:" commits and the one "random:" commit.
Alternatively, you can look directly at
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zx2c4/linux.git/tree/crypto/poly1305_zinc.c?h=jd/wireguard>
and <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zx2c4/linux.git/tree/crypto/chacha20_zinc.c?h=jd/wireguard>.
I'll be refining and checking these over the next week or so, but the
basics were super easy to do.

Jason