I have submitted my application on the official GSoC site. Do I also have to submit it on this discussion list or anywhere else? On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 18/03/2015 18:05, Catalin Vasile wrote: >> cryptodev is not merged into upstream from what I know. > > Yes, but QEMU runs on non-Linux platforms too. Of course doing > vhost+driver or gnutls+driver would be already more than enough for the > summer. > > In any case, just put all the justification in your application. Thanks > for participating to QEMU's GSoC! > > Paolo > >> gnutls can use cryptodev and AF_ALG as crypto engines. >> From some benchmarks (that can also be found on cryptodev's webpage) >> you can see AF_ALG has a lot overhead over a standalone misc/char >> device. > >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 18/03/2015 17:01, Catalin Vasile wrote: >>>> To be more exact, I want to make a virtio-crypto device to emulate a >>>> virtual cryptographic offloading device that will send jobs from the >>>> guest to a vhost that will process the jobs. This mechanism will link >>>> CryptoAPI from the guest to the CryptoAPI from the host. This way, >>>> whatever it's beneath CryptoAPI from the host will be used as >>>> offloading for the guest. >>>> Is there a mentor interested in getting involved in this kind of project? >>> >>> I think it's very likely that you'll find a mentor. Please submit a >>> proposal, also detailing the advantage of vhost over a userspace >>> solution (using any of gnutls, AF_ALG, cryptodev). >>> >>> Paolo >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
