Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2015 06:50:40 -0500 | From | Sowmini Varadhan <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Crypto kernel tls socket |
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On (11/24/15 12:20), Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > There are some crypto acclerators out there so that putting tls into the > kernel would give a net benefit, because otherwise user space has to > copy data into the kernel for device access and back to user space until > it can finally be send out on the wire. > > Since processors provide aesni and other crypto extensions as part of > their instruction set architecture, this, of course, does not make sense > any more.
BTW, that, exactly, was what happened to Solaris kssl.
--Sowmini
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