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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Writing Asynchronous Block Ciphers
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To: Rodel Miguel <rodelfmiguel@gmail.com>
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On 05/11/2012 06:30 AM, Rodel Miguel wrote:
> I would like to know if anyone has a tutorial/document link in
> writing a CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER crypto device driver?  I am
> looking at drivers/cipher/mv_cesa.c but there are lots of things
> going on which are hardware context related.  I would like to know
> what the minimum requirements for an asynchronous block cipher
> drivers are before I hand over (DMA) the collected data to my
> encryption hardware.

This is question for linux-crypt mailing list,
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-crypto
actually, problems with mv_cesa are just dicsussed there...

Milan