From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: User Space API for CryptoAPI Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:07:23 +0800 Message-ID: <20080325030723.GA12830@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20080220202543.3209.47410.stgit@jazz.citi.umich.edu> <20080324131204.GA7324@gondor.apana.org.au> <0CA0A16855646F4FA96D25A158E299D6043EDC6C@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Evgeniy Polyakov To: Loc Ho Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:38993 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756165AbYCYDH2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:07:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0CA0A16855646F4FA96D25A158E299D6043EDC6C@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:54:16PM -0700, Loc Ho wrote: > Hi Herbert, > > Is there an user space API driver wrap around Linux CryptoAPI? I notice > there is OCF-Linux which has an user interface that works with OpenSSL. > It seems to use Linux CryptoAPI if there is no hardware offload with > OCF. In addition, there is a fellow which developed cryptodev patch > around Linux CryptoAPI but it is limited and doesn't support everything > and not compatible with OpenSSL. Are there anything else? Evgeniy might have an implementation as well. I haven't had much time to look at this recently, but an fd-based scheme involving splice could be interesting. Thanks, -- 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