Re: Cryptsetup -- OpenSSL Engine

Milan Broz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/01/2019 21:56, Anil Reddy wrote:
> Yes, engine is for data encryption. Opensource projects like OpenVPN provides OpenSSL "engine" support as part of configuration. So, just wondering if encryption/decryption operations can be offloaded to external engines 
> 
> https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/hardware/cryptographic-accelerator-support.html  

Sure. HW crypto acceleration is part of kernel and dm-crypt will use it automatically
if crypto API detects that accelerated module is available.
Today is is very common to use Intel AES-NI for example.

Forget about OpenSSL or other backend in cryptsetup, this is not the option that handles
data encryption.

Milan
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