Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 09/01/2011 05:32 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos<nmav@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:06:06 +0200
>
> > It would be interesting to have a partial kernel-space TLS
> > implementation but I don't know whether such a thing could ever make
> > it to kernel.
> Herbert and I have discussed this several times and we plan on
> implementing this at some point.

The problem is that TLS is not a universal thing. There is still SSH,
kerberos, openvpn (as far as I remember it is a custom protocol), etc. 
It makes sense to have something to apply broadly, especially when it is 
in the Linux kernel. Currently have a device such as /dev/crypto looks 
like a good compromise.

regards,
Nikos
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