Re: [PATCH v10 5/8] crypto: Add ML-DSA crypto_sig support
From: David Howells
Date: Mon Nov 24 2025 - 14:54:51 EST
Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Still not really sure what the point is. There's only one user of
> > > crypto_sig, and it could just call the ML-DSA functions directly.
> >
> > Is it your aim to kill off the crypto/ dir and all the (old) crypto API?
>
> Probably entirely killing off the old API is going to be fraught
> because its abstraction has leaked out to userspace. But to the extent
> we can minimize its use over time, I think that's a good thing. Even
> for crypto usages that generalize to a few different ciphers of one
> variety or another, I think being explicit about which ciphers and
> having purpose-built dispatchers is usually a better route.
How are you proposing handling the autoloading feature of the old API?
David