Re: [Ocf-linux-users] The development problem of developing an OCF driver, could you please give me some hint?

[David M. <dav...@mc...>]

Jivin Paul Wouters lays it down ...
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, David McCullough wrote:
> 
> > If your "user" only asked for DES in its session that would be fine,  but
> > openswan asks for DES+SHA1,  which your driver cannot do,  and cryptosoft
> > can no longer do.
> 
> Why can't cryptosoft do that? Is it a policy because 1des is too weak?

cryptosoft can do it normally,  but after DES support was commented out of
cryptosoft by Hui it can't :-)

Of course the fact that DES+SHA1 requires a driver that can support the
combination is a deficiancy in OCF IMO,  but that needs to be addressed at a
higher layer than cryptosoft,  if it is.

Cheers,
Davidm

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