Collin Funk <[email protected]> writes:

> A month ago the linux crypto API maintainer pushed a commit deprecating
> af_alg [1]. Any objections to marking the Gnulib module deprecated once
> it gets merged into the main tree?

+1

I never understood the push for af_alg, it seems really poor use of
kernel time, and lots of unnecessary complexity in user-space, and I
would be happy to see this removed or deprecated from gnulib.

/Simon

> I am guessing it will be uncontroversial since the OpenSSL versions of
> the functions Gnulib uses are faster anyways.
>
> Collin
>
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git/commit/?id=a67afb1884ba815079bd43d5c998e155e03b08b6
>
>

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