From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [GSoC] project proposal Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:42:22 +0100 Message-ID: <5509AAEE.8010307@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Catalin Vasile , "MA..." Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f176.google.com ([74.125.82.176]:34323 "EHLO mail-we0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933135AbbCRQm2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:42:28 -0400 Received: by wegp1 with SMTP id p1so36925645weg.1 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:42:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 18/03/2015 17:01, Catalin Vasile wrote: > To be more exact, I want to make a virtio-crypto device to emulate a > virtual cryptographic offloading device that will send jobs from the > guest to a vhost that will process the jobs. This mechanism will link > CryptoAPI from the guest to the CryptoAPI from the host. This way, > whatever it's beneath CryptoAPI from the host will be used as > offloading for the guest. > Is there a mentor interested in getting involved in this kind of project? I think it's very likely that you'll find a mentor. Please submit a proposal, also detailing the advantage of vhost over a userspace solution (using any of gnutls, AF_ALG, cryptodev). Paolo