Re: sync rijndael-alg-fst.c with OpenBSD

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 09:03:52AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> 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.

Already done -- look at the Atom 2x58.

Thor