Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Crypto kernel tls socket

[Sowmini Varadhan]

On (11/24/15 12:20), Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> There are some crypto acclerators out there so that putting tls into the
> kernel would give a net benefit, because otherwise user space has to
> copy data into the kernel for device access and back to user space until
> it can finally be send out on the wire.
> 
> Since processors provide aesni and other crypto extensions as part of
> their instruction set architecture, this, of course, does not make sense
> any more.

BTW, that, exactly, was what happened to Solaris kssl. 

--Sowmini


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