Leo Yan <l...@marvell.com> wrote: > > 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.
I have nothing against having asymmetric crypto per se. However, until the user-space API exists there is no point in adding any asymmetric infrastructure in the kernel as we have no in-kernel users for them. So please help in creating the user-space API first. Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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
