> > As I already mentioned in another thread somewhere, this morning in the > > shower I realised that this may be useful if you have no expectation of > > the length itself. But it's still a pretty specific use case which was > > never considered for our hardware. And our HW doesn't seem to be alone in > > this. > > Does shaXXXsum or md5sum use the kernel crypto API though? > > The ones from libkcapi do (http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html) > > Christophe > I was not aware of that, so thanks for pointing that out. Do they use the async calls (_aio) though? Because otherwise they shouldn't end up being hardware accelerated anyway ... Regards, Pascal van Leeuwen Silicon IP Architect, Multi-Protocol Engines @ Inside Secure www.insidesecure.com
