CRYPTO_DATA_RAW input CRYPTO_DATA_UIO output ?
Darren J Moffat
Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM
Wed Jan 2 02:06:34 PST 2008
Krishna Yenduri wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> I wanted to check that this should be possible.
>>
>> Using AES in CCM mode I want to use a uio_t because I need to allocate
>> memory for the data and the mac in a different way. The data I need
>> to allocated from a specific kmem_cache. The mac I need to fill in an
>> already allocated structure.
>>
>> I should be possible if I construct the output uio_t with the
>> appropriate pointers to the allocated memory, right ?
>>
>
> Yes. Keep in mind that this would require you to know the sizes of
> both the encrypted/decrypted data and the computed MAC in advance.
I believe I do know all that in advance so I'm going to give this
approach a try.
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Darren J Moffat
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