re: sync rijndael-alg-fst.c with OpenBSD
matthew green <[email protected]> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 09:03:52 +1100
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Taylor R Campbell writes: > Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 20:26:18 +0100 > From: Alexander Nasonov <[email protected]> > > If the goal is switching cgd to opencrypto, this is where all > self-tests should be implemented. > > That was a goal a long time ago. It's not clear to me that opencrypto > is the way to go, though -- opencrypto was designed for an era when > hardware acceleration meant issuing asynchronous I/O requests over a > PCI bus, not when hardware acceleration meant executing a CPU > instruction. the prior world is still around -- consider intel QAT. i'm expecting this to be pushed into the cpu core ic at some point, but still accessed via pci. .mrg.