Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: >> I would love nothing more than to engage in this, but I happened to >> be made aware of a new section in the kernel config through what >> seems to have been "luck" on Friday and a lot of facially broken >> changes are being added at an incredible clip. > > In general the Linux kernel makes huge efforts in backwards compatibility, > so I'd be optimistic on them keeping compat here. In any case, > coreutils doesn't depend on --with-linux-crypto as it's off by default > for reasons previously discussed. In summary it's more suited to those > with dedicated hardware, and otherwise can be slower than other software > implementations.
Also worth noting that our needs are fairly simplistic. We just need to hash files. I do not expect that API to change much, if at all. If it does, it will likely be simple to port. We certainly don't need to worry about more complex algorithms like ML-DSA. Collin
