Re: glxsb(4) and other opencrypto(9) engines in use by cgd(4) and fast_ipsec(4) ?

"Brian A. Seklecki" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.general,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.crypto
Organization Collaborative Fusion, Inc.
Message-ID <1221762495.15646.224.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com>
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 22:38 -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> You're correct that the cgd driver doesn't use crypto(9).  It could --
> if it did so synchronously (waiting on every request) the
> modifications would be quite small.  

We might be interested in sponsoring that.  We're not a crypto-NAS
company, though, we're an ASP.  Might be a hard sell, but if someone
wants to ballpark the development costs....

> However, someone ought to replace the dreadful iovec-walking code used
> by crypto(9) with the considerably better code in cgd -- or even
> better yet, something that submits multiple requests but doesn't copy
> at all -- while they're at it, at least so I says.

Alright (alright).  Carry on.

-- 
Brian A. Seklecki <[email protected]>
Collaborative Fusion, Inc.




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