Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:08:38 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto |
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > > Indeed but today that's what we have in some systems. User-space TLS > implementations (GnuTLS and OpenSSL) and kernel-space crypto > offloading. The purpose of the /dev/crypto and AF_ALG interfaces is to > connect those together. It would be interesting to have a partial > kernel-space TLS implementation but I don't know whether such a thing > could ever make it to kernel.
Well we've talked about a kernel implementation of the data path previously and I don't think there is any opposition to the idea.
The only thing missing is an implementation.
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