Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>
> Indeed but today that's what we have in some systems. User-space TLS
> implementations (GnuTLS and OpenSSL) and kernel-space crypto
> offloading. The purpose of the /dev/crypto and AF_ALG interfaces is to
> connect those together. It would be interesting to have a partial
> kernel-space TLS implementation but I don't know whether such a thing
> could ever make it to kernel.

Well we've talked about a kernel implementation of the data path
previously and I don't think there is any opposition to the idea.

The only thing missing is an implementation.

Cheers,
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