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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Dean Jenkins <djenkins@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPsec books and how to add async hardware encryption ?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:32:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081031203251.GC32720@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810311508.48703.djenkins@mvista.com>

Hi.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:08:48PM +0000, Dean Jenkins (djenkins@mvista.com) wrote:
> I am having difficulty finding a book that describes IPsec that includes IKEv2 
> and is preferably aimed at using Linux crypto. Can anyone recommend such a 
> book ?

There is no such book I believe.

> Also, how do I find info on the cypto APIs eg. how to use cryptd (2.6.24 
> kernel) ?
> 
> I'm working on a project that uses an embedded hardware encryption engine that 
> needs to use async off-load. Is cryptd the entity for async hardware crypto 
> off-loading ?

cryptd is an software engine example of how hardware driver could be implemented.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 15:08 IPsec books and how to add async hardware encryption ? Dean Jenkins
2008-10-31 20:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2008-11-03 10:50   ` Dean Jenkins
2008-11-03 11:13     ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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