Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:17:34 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v0] Add SHA-3 hash algorithm |
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On 10/03/2012 03:11 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:53:27AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> Maybe my patch is the best we can do in the current kernel, if >> dynamic digest size is not currently possible. Register "sha3_224", >> "sha3_256", ... as you describe, and wait for actual users to appear >> with unsupported digest sizes. > > Let's see what people use before we do anything more fancy. > > If the variants really start proliferating, we can add a template > called "trunc" and then have things like "trunc(sha3,224)", etc.
If they start proliferating, you really just want a single "sha3(n)", one single shash_alg registered at driver init time.
Jeff
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