Re: [0/6] [CRYPTO]: Async blkcipher backend support

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



HI Evgeniy:

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:28:42PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> Good to see async crypto processing is being (a bit slowly - more than a
> year after we talked about it previously :) completed.

Yeah I haven't really been able to put enough time into it unfortunately.

> With this patchset included there will not be requirement for another async levels,
> so I can port HIFN 795x driver from acrypto to this one.

Great!

> Do you have a stable git tree to pull from, so I could prepare a testbed.
> (althugh I can not start right now, but expect to do it soon).

These patches are now in cryptodev-2.6 and they will also show up in
mm soon.

> And, hmm, your documentation really sucks, could you write a draft for
> async api and put it into the tree?

Yes they suck so much that they don't exist :)

Once things settle down a bit I'll write something up.  Of course
patches are welcome too.

For now the best place to start would be to look at the async crypto
users (tcrypt and dm-crypt) and driver (cryptd).

Cheers,
-- 
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
-
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

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel]     [Gnu Classpath]     [Gnu Crypto]     [DM Crypt]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]

  Powered by Linux