Hi, Thank for reply. As such I don't have any use case. But the use case I can think of is AEAD operation on large file using AF_ALG interface. If user tried this he/she will get invalid TAG value.
Regards Harsh Jain On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Harsh Jain <harshjain.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> There is maximum limit of data which crypto user can send(in encrypt) >> to get TAG in AEAD operations. We do not have update/final like >> implementation for AEAD algo's. why is this so? > > Because our users haven't needed it so far. Also algorithms like CCM > cannot support such an operation. > > If you have a valid use case for it then I'll consider it. > > Cheers, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
