From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, phil@nwl.cc,
cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:19:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5FB074.6000404@gnutls.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110901.113234.755815899606372879.davem@davemloft.net>
On 09/01/2011 05:32 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos<nmav@gnutls.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:06:06 +0200
>
>> It would be interesting to have a partial kernel-space TLS
>> implementation but I don't know whether such a thing could ever make
>> it to kernel.
> Herbert and I have discussed this several times and we plan on
> implementing this at some point.
The problem is that TLS is not a universal thing. There is still SSH,
kerberos, openvpn (as far as I remember it is a custom protocol), etc.
It makes sense to have something to apply broadly, especially when it is
in the Linux kernel. Currently have a device such as /dev/crypto looks
like a good compromise.
regards,
Nikos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-01 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-28 13:17 comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-08-28 20:35 ` David Miller
2011-08-29 7:32 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-08-29 16:09 ` David Miller
2011-08-30 16:33 ` [Cryptodev-linux-devel] " Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 2:15 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 6:26 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 6:43 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 6:54 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 6:56 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 13:39 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 14:14 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 14:56 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 14:59 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 15:06 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 15:08 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 15:32 ` David Miller
2011-09-01 16:19 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos [this message]
2011-09-01 15:09 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 15:13 ` Herbert Xu
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