[Pkg-openssl-devel] OpenSSL OCF HW acceleration (AMD LX800)

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:29:53PM +0200, Teco Boot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Q:
> Is there any effort on OpenSSL for HW acceleration (so I don't need OCF-linux provided patches)?

openssl contains hardware support for various things, like
AESNI.  I think they would like to add more HW support.

> If OCF is the way to go, why not adopt it?

/dev/crypto is still not merged in the Linux kernel, so we can't
use it?

There is a netlink based crypto API for Linux instead.  There
seems to be a patch available to create an engine that uses it,
which might be a better way forward on Linux?

> I guess the questions are for OpenSSL development. I try you as Debian maintainers first. Feel free to forward.

I would prefer that upstream contains all the code, so I suggest
you try to get patches merged upstream.


Kurt