Re: [PATCH 1/2] CryptoAPI: prepare for processing multiple buffersat a time

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Fri Jan 14 2005 - 17:32:51 EST


On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:31:03 +0300
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Crypto routing.
> This feature allows the same session to be processed by several devices/algorithms.
> For example if you need to encrypt data and then sign it in TPM device you can create
> one route to encryption device and then route it to TPM device. (Note: this feature
> must be discussed since there is no time slice after session allocation, only in
> crypto_device->data_ready() method and there are locking issues in ->callback() method).

Actually it is already impleneted by
crypto_session_alloc();
route manipulations
crypto_session_add();

And sessions can be (re)routed inside crypto devices itself.

Evgeniy Polyakov

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