From: Vincent Jardin <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [ACRYPTO] New asynchronous crypto layer (acrypto) release.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:31:28 +0200
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To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
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For the best synergy with OpenBSD guys, the OCF API should be considered:
   
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/full_papers/keromytis/keromytis_html/node8.html

then, whatever a HW driver is added, the same IOCTLs will be used by 
OpenSSL. The OCF patch for OpenSSL is already available.

Currently, it is not into the kernel git's repository so I think that 
your Via CPU won't get better performances with OpenSSL

Regards,
   Vincent

Samuel Tardieu wrote:

>Evgeniy> Hello.  I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer
>Evgeniy> (acrypto) [1] release for 2.6.18 kernel tree. Acrypto allows
>Evgeniy> to handle crypto requests asynchronously in hardware.
>
>Would userspace programs benefit from this patch? In particular, would
>OpenSSL get better performances on Via nehemiah CPUs or does it need
>to be patched?
>
>  Sam
>  
>