Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1077427/

At the 2026 Linux Security Summit North America, Eric Biggers spoke about
some of the problems with the kernel’s cryptography framework, as well
as the recent progress in adding library APIs to allow developers to
use cryptographic functions without using the traditional crypto
API. He walked through a couple of examples to demonstrate the
frailty of the original API and showed how the new library API made
life easier for developers and kernel maintainers.