Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932303AbcDHC6w (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:58:52 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com ([209.85.213.175]:36545 "EHLO mail-ig0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932104AbcDHC6v (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:58:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160408025250.GA7596@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20160306012044.6369.63924.stgit@tstruk-mobl1> <20160405112940.GB11852@gondor.apana.org.au> <57054DBC.8010507@intel.com> <20160408025250.GA7596@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 23:58:50 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] crypto: af_alg - add TLS type encryption From: Tom Herbert To: Herbert Xu Cc: Tadeusz Struk , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, LKML , "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Network Developers , davejwatson@fb.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 20 On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:56:12AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote: >> >> The intend is to enable HW acceleration of the TLS protocol. >> The way it will work is that the user space will send a packet of data >> via AF_ALG and HW will authenticate and encrypt it in one go. > > There have been suggestions to implement TLS data-path within > the kernel. So we should decide whether we pursue that or go > with your approach before we start adding algorithms. > Yes, please see Dave Watson's patches on this. Tom > Cheers, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt