From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:37:31 +0400 > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:48:51PM -0700, Gautam Singaraju (gautam.singaraju@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Is there any attempts being made to provide software based RSA > > cryptographic support in kernel level? I see that 2.6.21 supports > > Hardware devices such as VIA Padlock ACE. Has anybody had a change to > > use such a system? > > VIA padlock engine or RSA? The former is heavily used in the wild, but > why would anyone want to use RSA in the kernel? Automatic SSL done in-kernel on user data for socket I/O, with hardware offload from the crypto layer when available. Solaris has done this for quite some time and it helps a lot for things like the VIA and Niagara. - 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
