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

[Tom Herbert]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, please see Dave Watson's patches on this.

Tom

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