Re: [PATCH 21/21] crypto: remove HKDF library

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 3/2/26 08:59, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Remove crypto/hkdf.c, since it's no longer used.  Originally it had two
> users, but now both of them just inline the needed HMAC computations
> using the HMAC library APIs.  That ends up being better, since it
> eliminates all the complexity and performance issues associated with the
> crypto_shash abstraction and multi-step HMAC input formatting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   crypto/Kconfig        |   6 -
>   crypto/Makefile       |   1 -
>   crypto/hkdf.c         | 573 ------------------------------------------
>   include/crypto/hkdf.h |  20 --
>   4 files changed, 600 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 crypto/hkdf.c
>   delete mode 100644 include/crypto/hkdf.h
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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