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

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Jan 10 2025 - 05:31:01 EST


On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:26:38AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>
> However the point of having a library is to abstract those details from the
> callers. You wanted me to rewrite the library as AEAD algorithms, which I
> have done as far as I can. This makes the object for each kerberos enctype
> look the same from the PoV of the clients.

I think there is some misunderstanding here. For a library outside
of the Crypto API you can do whatever you want.

I only suggested AEAD because I thought you wanted to bring this within
the Crypto API.

Cheers,
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