> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 4:47 AM Christophe Leroy > <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote: > > ... > > > 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) > > And they can be loaded into OpenSSL through the afalg interface. > Hmm ... yeah ... OpenSSL ... yet another synchronous API that doesn't stand a chance of being HW accelerated (although Intel contributed some async API fairly recently - but I don't know of any application actually ported to use that - would love to hear about any if they do exist). Sorry, open wound ... Regards, Pascal van Leeuwen Silicon IP Architect, Multi-Protocol Engines @ Inside Secure www.insidesecure.com
