From: David McCullough Subject: Re: Questions For Linux Crypto API Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:44:04 +1000 Message-ID: <20091014114404.GA4435@securecomputing.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" To: Leo Yan Return-path: Received: from dalsmrelay2.nai.com ([205.227.136.216]:48020 "HELO dalsmrelay2.nai.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932817AbZJNLva (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:51:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jivin Leo Yan lays it down ... > > Hi, all > > I am a newbie for Linux crypto. > Recently I am warming up on Linux Crypto APIs and have some questions. > Would you kindly give me some hints about it J ? > > 1. Does Linux Crypto API now support user space or not? > I have googled the mailing list, and find some guys have committed some patches for it. > But so far, in the Linux mainline (2.6.31) do not merge it. > So Linux Crypto API will support user space or not? Someone else will know more about this. People are working on it I think but it's not there yet. > 2. OCF has been ported to Linux, so will OCF integrate with Linux Crypto API or not? OCF has a driver called cryptosoft that uses the linux crypto API. > If Linux Crypto API will support the user space and provide the user space APIs, then OpenBSD Cryptographics Framework > will directly use the Linux Crypto APIs or not? Otherwise Once linux has it's own user space API you will not need OCF to provide one, but you will need to add/wait for support for applications like openssl etc to use the linux API. Cheers, Davidm -- David McCullough, david_mccullough@securecomputing.com, Ph:+61 734352815 McAfee - SnapGear http://www.snapgear.com http://www.uCdot.org