Re: [GSoC] project proposal

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/03/2015 18:05, Catalin Vasile wrote:
> cryptodev is not merged into upstream from what I know.

Yes, but QEMU runs on non-Linux platforms too.  Of course doing
vhost+driver or gnutls+driver would be already more than enough for the
summer.

In any case, just put all the justification in your application.  Thanks
for participating to QEMU's GSoC!

Paolo

> gnutls can use cryptodev and AF_ALG as crypto engines.
> From some benchmarks (that can also be found on cryptodev's webpage)
> you can see AF_ALG has a lot overhead over a standalone misc/char
> device.

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
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