Re: [PATCH 1/1 v1] Add CryptoAPI PKA Support

2008-08-11 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:55:18PM -0700, Shasi Pulijala wrote: > > [Shasi Pulijala] > We do not have enough resources at this time to provide the Software > Implementation, but sure can come up with something at a later time. Without a software implementation this would only be useful if we had

RE: [PATCH 1/1 v1] Add CryptoAPI PKA Support

2008-08-11 Thread Shasi Pulijala
Hi, >Could you please tell us why we need this at all? For instance, what hardware >devices will be supported and who will be the users? [Shasi Pulijala] The Public Key Acceleration Engine is an integral HW Offload module for many of our AMCC 4xx SOC's. And hence providing a PKA user interfa

Re: [PATCH 1/1 v1] Add CryptoAPI PKA Support

2008-08-10 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:02:48PM -0700, Shasi Pulijala wrote: > > This patch adds PKA support to Linux CryptoAPI. All the basic algorithms like > add, sub, div, expmod and expmod-crt can be supported by this interface. > Currently the max number of src and dst operands have been defined as 6