Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Exporting existing crypto API code through zinc

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:24:41PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:19 PM Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes.  In fact it's used for FIPS certification testing.
> > Sure, nobody sane should be doing it.  But when it comes to
> > government certification... :)
> 
> The kernel does not aim toward any FIPS certification, and we're not
> going to start bloating our designs to fulfill this. It's never been a
> goal. Maybe ask Ted to add a FIPS mode to random.c and see what
> happens... When you start arguing "because FIPS!" as your
> justification, you really hit a head scratcher.

FIPS is not the issue.  The issue is that we need to keep the
existing user-space ABI.  We can't break that.

Cheers,
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