Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965091AbVIAMfB (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:35:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965093AbVIAMfB (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:35:01 -0400 Received: from jay.exetel.com.au ([220.233.0.8]:26845 "EHLO jay.exetel.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965091AbVIAMfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:35:00 -0400 From: Herbert Xu To: ndbecker2@gmail.com (Neal Becker) Subject: Re: via hardware accelerated crypto support Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Organization: Core In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.27-hx-1-686-smp (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:34:47 +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 22 Neal Becker wrote: > I haven't been following linux kernel development for a while, so I'm not > sure what the status is. I noticed that there is now crypto support in the > kernel, including e.g. AES. I would like to use hardware acceleration > where available, e.g., VIA EPIA. Does the current kernel crypto support > include hardware acceleration, or is there any projects working on this? Yes recent 2.6 kernels fully support the VIA Padlock device for AES encryption. All you need to do is load the padlock module or have it built into your kernel. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/