Hi, all Sorry for that I have to ask the question once more for asymmetric crypto. And another question is about FIPS.
My problem is our SOC chip is the application processor, and provide the Crypto hardware engine with hash, symmetric crypto (aes, 3des, etc) and asymmetric crypto (PKCS-RSA, ECC, etc). We want use the Linux CryptoAPI to enable the crypto engine. But now Linux CryptoAPI has supported (a)hash and (a)blockcipher well, but can NOT support asymmetric crypto. So question is: Does Linux CryptoAPI will be a general crypto engine accelerator framework for Linux platform, or just only dedicated for Linux Kernel? Like the thread has discussed, http://osdir.com/ml/linux.kernel.cryptoapi/2007/msg00307.html, Some guys think that nobody wants to use RSA in the kernel, but if Linux CryptoAPI wants support user space (As Herbert has mentioned it in the September's conference), then the scenario is changing. For example, if the browsers use the OpenSSL, and OpenSSL can call the Linux CryptoAPI to get the HW acceleration, and eventually optimize its performance. So I want get more clearly for this point. Any comment is appreciated. Thanks a lot. Best Regards, Leo Yan Best Regards, Leo Yan Ext: 24880 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
