Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:37:14 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens@endorphin.org>
Subject: Re: [0/many] Acrypto - asynchronous crypto layer for linux kernel
 2.6
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:08:35 -0500
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:

> On Mar 07, 2005, at 15:37, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer for Linux kernel 2.6.
> > It supports following features:
> > - multiple asynchronous crypto device queues
> > - crypto session routing
> > - crypto session binding
> > - modular load balancing
> > - crypto session batching genetically implemented by design
> > - crypto session priority
> > - different kinds of crypto operation(RNG, asymmetrical crypto, HMAC 
> > and
> > any other)
> 
> Did you include support for the new key/keyring infrastructure 
> introduced
> a couple versions ago by David Howells?  It allows userspace to create 
> and
> manage various sorts of "keys" in kernelspace.  If you create and 
> register
> a few keytypes for various symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, you could 
> then
> take advantage of its support for securely passing keys around in and 
> out
> of userspace.

As far as I know, it has different destination - 
for example asynchronous block device, which uses acrypto in one of it's 
filters, may use it.
 
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett
> 
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	Evgeniy Polyakov

Only failure makes us experts. -- Theo de Raadt
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