From: "Ronen Shitrit" Subject: RE: status of async crypto Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:14:35 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20070805151546.GC32132@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: To: "Herbert Xu" Return-path: Received: from shoshil.marvell.com ([199.203.130.250]:10461 "EHLO il.marvell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753817AbXHGHQl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 03:16:41 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org Hi Herbert I found a mailing thread discussing "combined mode algorithms", I think that this is the main missing link for good async support. Are you planning that this combined alg mode will support the async API? Is there any progress on this direction? Regards Ronen Shitrit > -----Original Message----- > From: Evgeniy Polyakov [mailto:johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru] > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:16 PM > To: Ronen Shitrit > Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: status of async crypto > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:50:48PM +0300, Ronen Shitrit > (rshitrit@marvell.com) wrote: > > I saw that the current code support async crypto for the dm-crypt, does > > it > > also support async crypto for the klips? > > Is there any support for using the async crypto from the OpenSSL engine > > library? > > I saw that the async crypto support block cipher, does it also support > > digest operations? > > Can it support encryption + authentication (lets say AES-SHA1) as one > > operation? > > Is there any Documentation available? (I guess not) > > No for all above. > > > What is the todo list for further development of the async crypto > > support? > > New drivers and extending functionality if required. Some work is being > done in this area, although not that fast. > > -- > Evgeniy Polyakov