Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] crypto/krb5: Provide Kerberos 5 crypto through AEAD API

[David Howells]

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It sounds like a lot of workarounds had to be implemented to fit these
> protocols into the crypto_aead API.
> 
> It also seems unlikely that there will be other implementations of these
> protocols added to the kernel, besides the one you're adding in crypto/krb5/.
> 
> Given that, providing this functionality as library functions instead would be
> much simpler.  Take a look at how crypto/kdf_sp800108.c works, for example.

Yes.  That's how I did my first implementation.  I basically took the code
from net/sunrpc/auth_gss/ and made it more generic.  Herbert wants it done
this way, however.  :-/

David