Re: [GSoC] project proposal

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 22/04/2015 10:51, Catalin Vasile wrote:
> If we want a mainstream userspace backend that could interact with a
> lot of crypto engines, we could use OpenSSL (it can actually use
> cryptodev and AF_ALG as engines).
> For now, until mid June (my diploma project presentation) I still want
> to use vhost as a backend for the sole purpose of having a finished
> backend which now I have a good grasp upon.
> If the finished work would be good enough work to be merged upstream
> will be talked later.
> As a GSoC project, OpenSSL as a backend would continue the
> virtio-crypto development, as it's not uncommon to have multiple types
> of backends.
> The current work on virtio-crypto qemu and guest module is pretty
> backend agnostic, and could allow future development(use of other
> backends and other features).

OpenSSL's license is not compatible with QEMU, hence the suggestion of
using gnutls.

Paolo