On 22/04/2015 10:51, Catalin Vasile wrote: > If we want a mainstream userspace backend that could interact with a > lot of crypto engines, we could use OpenSSL (it can actually use > cryptodev and AF_ALG as engines). > For now, until mid June (my diploma project presentation) I still want > to use vhost as a backend for the sole purpose of having a finished > backend which now I have a good grasp upon. > If the finished work would be good enough work to be merged upstream > will be talked later. > As a GSoC project, OpenSSL as a backend would continue the > virtio-crypto development, as it's not uncommon to have multiple types > of backends. > The current work on virtio-crypto qemu and guest module is pretty > backend agnostic, and could allow future development(use of other > backends and other features). OpenSSL's license is not compatible with QEMU, hence the suggestion of using gnutls. 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
