Re: [PATCH 0/3] crypto: af_alg - add TLS type encryption

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 22:53:10 EST


On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:56:12AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
>
> The intend is to enable HW acceleration of the TLS protocol.
> The way it will work is that the user space will send a packet of data
> via AF_ALG and HW will authenticate and encrypt it in one go.

There have been suggestions to implement TLS data-path within
the kernel. So we should decide whether we pursue that or go
with your approach before we start adding algorithms.

Cheers,
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