I found my way through it's API. http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Cryptographic-API Does anyone know if it has one shot givencrypt (generate IV and encrypt as one job)? I see an option to get random data, but I was thinking if there is an one shot option. On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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
