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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Cristian Stoica <cristian.stoica@freescale.com>,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add TLS record layer encryption module
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:59:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53DAA031.30405@amacapital.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406626353-23309-1-git-send-email-cristian.stoica@freescale.com>

On 07/29/2014 02:32 AM, Cristian Stoica wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This set of patches introduces support for TLS 1.0 record layer
> encryption/decryption with a corresponding algorithm called
> tls10(hmac(<hash>),cbc(<cipher>)).
> 
> Similarly to authenc.c on which it is based, this module mixes the base
> algorithms in software to produce an algorithm that does record layer
> encryption and decryption for TLS1.0.
> Any combination of hw and sw base algorithms is possible, but the purpose
> is to take advantage of hardware acceleration for TLS record layer offloading
> when hardware acceleration is present.

What is this used for?  AF_ALG?  I find it hard to believe that the
kernel will ever want to use this internally.

--Andy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-31 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-29  9:32 [PATCH 0/2] Add TLS record layer encryption module Cristian Stoica
2014-07-29  9:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] crypto: add support for TLS 1.0 record encryption Cristian Stoica
2014-07-31 20:01   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-01  9:06     ` Cristian Stoica
2014-08-01 14:44       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-04  6:21         ` Cristian Stoica
2014-07-29  9:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] crypto: add TLS 1.0 test vectors for AES-CBC-HMAC-SHA1 Cristian Stoica
2014-07-31 19:59 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2014-08-01  8:24   ` [PATCH 0/2] Add TLS record layer encryption module Cristian Stoica
2014-08-25  9:44   ` Herbert Xu
2014-08-25 13:12 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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