Zinc: a new kernel cryptography API [LWN.net]

Zinc: a new kernel cryptography API

Posted Nov 7, 2018 4:28 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: Zinc: a new kernel cryptography API by pj
Parent article: Zinc: a new kernel cryptography API

Full disclosure, when I wrote that, I was thinking of various corporate "REST" apis that are anything but REST, overly complicated java libraries that resort to XML to "simplify", and OpenSSL. It wasn't really meant as a comment on anything directly related, whether apropos or not.

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Zinc: a new kernel cryptography API

Posted Nov 7, 2018 17:20 UTC (Wed) by rweikusat2 (subscriber, #117920) [Link] (1 responses)

API has a technical meaning: Application programming interface. This can be anything. Eg open, close, read, write, lseek, ftruncate are the basic UNIX file access API and they're all "just functions". There' also "an API" for network configuration which is build on top of AF_NETLINK sockets which is a rather different animal (and not a particularly cute or pretty one).

API is also a marketing term. Then, it means "we do stuff on the web and we're so absoluetely MODERN! that we won't even know what until next week!" (presumably, this usage is meanwhile somewhat dated).

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Zinc: a new kernel cryptography API

Posted Nov 7, 2018 20:44 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

I'm having trouble relating this comment to mine. I described my personal associations for the term, and you seem to be defining the term.