On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:23:43PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus (aj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer (acrypto) [1] release > >for 2.6.18 kernel tree. Acrypto allows to handle crypto requests > >asynchronously in hardware. > > > >Combined patchset includes: > > * acrypto core > > * IPsec ESP4 port to acrypto > > * dm-crypt port to acrypto > > so I should be able to replace a plain 2.6.18 kernel with one > with this patchset and use dm-crypt'ed partitions (e.g. swap, > encrypted root filesystem) as usual without further changes? Yes. > Did anyone test this with success? Except me, I think... That code was used for OCF dm-crypt port some time ago (I recall it was Marvell), so the whole base is not limited by acrypto only. I can only say that there are users out there which use acrypto without pointing exact names naturally. I agree that it does not sound very strong, but actually I'm not going to convince someone, I just establish a fact. > Regards, Andreas -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
