Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] crypto: Documentation - crypto API high level spec

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:18:29PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST	Raw message digest
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_HASH		Alias for CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_DIGEST
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_SHASH	Synchronous multi-block hash
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_AHASH	Asynchronous multi-block hash
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_RNG		Random Number Generation
> > > + * CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_PCOMPRESS
> > 
> > What's that last one?
> 
> Same here.

pcompress is an enhanced version of compress allowing for piece-meal
compression/decompression rather than having to shove everything in
all at once.

Eventually pcompress should replace the compress interface once
everything is converted across.

Thanks,
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