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From: | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: | Re: basics for cryptodev support |
Date: | Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:11:12 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) |
Simon Josefsson wrote:
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> writes:I'm working slowly into adding some support for hw crypto devices. Currently the easiest way to achieve this is by using the kernel crypto hw support (in linux there is already support for via and geode aes implementations and there is also ocf-linux[0] which provides more hw).Cool!For this reason I added an API to register ciphers and macsWill this API be stable? I'd like to push out a stable 2.4.0 in a few weeks. If there is any risk that this API will change during 2.5.x, I think we should revert this change and add it for the next development cycle instead.
No I wouldn't consider them stable since I need to test them first with some other crypto provider (say cryptodev). I also haven't finished it (rnd and pki remain to be done).
(rnd + pki will follow on my next burst).
When I migrated the code to use gnulib for low-level crypto, I gave up on mpi stuff, since it was rather libgcrypt-specific right now. Finishing this would be really great.
I've also gave up several times after starting this. I'll try to work on it the next 2-3 weeks.
regards, Nikos
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