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core: add "khash" API to src/basic/ (as wrapper around kernel AF_ALG)
authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:03:21 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:13:00 +0000 (15:13 +0100)
commit0fe5f3c5d743a7e4c63580a67066935f9e23a2f4
treefb908cf2bdab00d3ad17bde1924e1eed8dd6e0ac
parent664e7984f8a96c1962961fcc1ebe6bd4a0c58c5f
core: add "khash" API to src/basic/ (as wrapper around kernel AF_ALG)

Let's take inspiration from bluez's ELL library, and let's move our
cryptographic primitives away from libgcrypt and towards the kernel's AF_ALG
cryptographic userspace API.

In the long run we should try to remove the dependency on libgcrypt, in favour
of using only the kernel's own primitives, however this is unlikely to happen
anytime soon, as the kernel does not provide Elliptic Curve APIs to userspace
at this time, and we need them for the DNSSEC cryptographic.

This commit only covers hashing for now, symmetric encryption/decryption or
even asymetric encryption/decryption is not available for now.

"khash" is little more than a lightweight wrapper around the kernel's AF_ALG
socket API.
.gitignore
Makefile.am
src/basic/khash.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/basic/khash.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/basic/missing.h
src/test/test-hash.c [new file with mode: 0644]