Hi, I'm currently working on a ARM920T based network processor with arm-linux kernel 2.6.5. This device has a crypto hardware accelerator dedicated to IPsec. In ESP mode the device can do authentication (SHA-1, MD5) as well as encryption (AES, TDES in CBC or ECB mode) in one pass. Unfortunately current Linux 2.6 crypto API doesn't support this kind of hardware accelerator. Current crypto module relies on crypto algorithms which are called for a single operation and for each block. Then, I would like to know if other people are working on the hardware crypto support in kernel 2.6.x. If so, what would be the plan ? crypto api improvement or new IPsec specific hardware support ? Thanks for any feedback or info. Remy Gauguey - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
