Re: Questions about ahash

2010-10-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Mark Allyn wrote: > > Herbert: > > Perhaps this is very fundamential, but what is the difference between > synchronous and asynchronous as far as crypto is concerned? My device > performs encryption and decryption asynchronously in relation to > the main processor in the system. The driver tells

Re: Questions about ahash

2010-10-25 Thread Mark Allyn
Herbert: Perhaps this is very fundamential, but what is the difference between synchronous and asynchronous as far as crypto is concerned? My device performs encryption and decryption asynchronously in relation to the main processor in the system. The driver tells the device to do x, then goes a

Re: Questions about ahash

2010-10-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Allyn, Mark A wrote: > Folks: > > I am attempting to implement an ahash instance for a hardware crypto device. > > I see that there is a sha1 generic in the soruces a crypto/sha1_generic.c > which uses the shash interface. I was hoping to use that, but there is some > stuff in the headers that

Questions about ahash

2010-10-22 Thread Allyn, Mark A
Folks: I am attempting to implement an ahash instance for a hardware crypto device. I see that there is a sha1 generic in the soruces a crypto/sha1_generic.c which uses the shash interface. I was hoping to use that, but there is some stuff in the headers that is confusing. In include/crypto/ha