From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
Cc: gautam.singaraju@gmail.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:05:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070706.040533.30182871.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706103731.GA10033@2ka.mipt.ru>
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:37:31 +0400
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:48:51PM -0700, Gautam Singaraju (gautam.singaraju@gmail.com) wrote:
> > Is there any attempts being made to provide software based RSA
> > cryptographic support in kernel level? I see that 2.6.21 supports
> > Hardware devices such as VIA Padlock ACE. Has anybody had a change to
> > use such a system?
>
> VIA padlock engine or RSA? The former is heavily used in the wild, but
> why would anyone want to use RSA in the kernel?
Automatic SSL done in-kernel on user data for socket I/O, with
hardware offload from the crypto layer when available.
Solaris has done this for quite some time and it helps a lot for
things like the VIA and Niagara.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 22:48 RSA support into kernel? Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 10:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-06 11:05 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-07-06 12:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-06 13:12 ` Herbert Xu
2007-07-06 13:36 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-07-06 14:41 ` Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 15:41 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-07-06 17:23 ` Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 16:01 ` Herbert Xu
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