Review of AEAD Encryption API Project; concluding December 5, 2008
Nicolas Williams
Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Mon Dec 1 16:58:41 EST 2008
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:56:17PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:
>
> Nicolas> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:01:02PM -0500, Sam Hartman
> Nicolas> wrote: That's not the problem. The problem is that in
> Nicolas> that example there are two large chunks of data that will
> Nicolas> be directly placed into different destinations.
> >> If you know where the header and trailer are, then don't use
> >> the stream cryptotype.
>
> Nicolas> I'm not sure I follow.
>
> Use the first calling pattern for decrypt: pass in a header buffer,
> multiple data buffers and a trailer buffer. Stream is only for when
> you don't want to decompose the structure; look at decrypt_stream in aead.con
> the mskrb-integ-crypto-iov branch in opengrok.
Oh! OK, I see what I misunderstood. Thanks.
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