Re: IPSec AH hardware offload

--- On Tue, 20/1/09, Jamie Iles <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm currently developing a driver for a hardware crypto
> offload engine that is
> capable of offloading both ESP and AH in IPSec. I've
> noticed that none of the
> crypto drivers in 2.6.28 do offload for ahash and that the
> netkey AH
> implementation both use synchronous hashes. Are the
> synchronous software
> versions likely to be more efficient than hardware
> offloading or is there an
> architectural reason for not using async hashes?
> 

It's possible you are posting to the wrong linux-crypto list.  Though this is in fact the original linux-crypto list, it is primarily concerned with loop-aes.

Some bright spark thought it a really good idea to start another list with exactly the same name, which is intended for mainline kernel crypto afaik:

http://markmail.org/browse/org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto/2009-01




      

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