Re: [PATCH v0] Add SHA-3 hash algorithm

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:53:27AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Maybe my patch is the best we can do in the current kernel, if
> dynamic digest size is not currently possible. Register "sha3_224",
> "sha3_256", ... as you describe, and wait for actual users to appear
> with unsupported digest sizes.

Let's see what people use before we do anything more fancy.

If the variants really start proliferating, we can add a template
called "trunc" and then have things like "trunc(sha3,224)", etc.

Cheers,
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