On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:26:33AM +0330, Hamid Nassiby wrote: >> >> As you know, I posted my problem again to crypto list and no one answered. >> Now I >> emphasize one aspect of the problem as a concept related to IPSec protocol, >> free >> of my problem's nature, and I hope to get some guidelines at this time. The >> question is as following: >> If IPSec delivers IP packets to hardware crypto accelerator in sequential >> manner >> (e.g, packets in order: 1, 2, 3, ..., 36, 37, 38,...) and crypto accelerator >> possibly returns back packets out of entering order to IPSec (e.g, packet >> 37 is returned back before the packet 36 to IPSec, so the order of packets >> is >> not the same before entering crypto accelerator and after exiting it); Is it >> possible to rise any problem here? > > We do not allow such reordering. All crypto drivers must ensure > ordering within a single tfm. Between different tfms there is no > ordering requirement. > > Cheers, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt >
Do you mean that different IP packets fit into one single Block Cipher tfm? Would you please explain expansively? Thanks a lot, -- 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
