From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:08:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110901150838.GA31988@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJU7zaKnKYYLx6W_9WsZCcwhNd0KMM9R8fs2D0=Xd_6T_AE4=A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>
> Indeed but today that's what we have in some systems. User-space TLS
> implementations (GnuTLS and OpenSSL) and kernel-space crypto
> offloading. The purpose of the /dev/crypto and AF_ALG interfaces is to
> connect those together. 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.
Well we've talked about a kernel implementation of the data path
previously and I don't think there is any opposition to the idea.
The only thing missing is an implementation.
Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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