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

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Fridolin,
> On 04/12/2016 04:13 AM, Fridolin Pokorny wrote:
>> we were experimenting with this. We have a prove of concept of a kernel
>> TLS type socket, so called AF_KTLS, which is based on Dave Watson's
>> RFC5288 patch. It handles both TLS and DTLS, unfortunately it is not
>> ready now to be proposed here. There are still issues which should be
>> solved (but mostly user space API design) [1]. If you are interested, we
>> could combine efforts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Fridolin Pokorny
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/fridex/af_ktls
> I had a quick look and it looks like is limited only to gcm(aes).
> I would be more interested to have a generic interface that could do generic algorithm
> suits like aes-cbc-hmac-sha1 also.

This is not a real limitation but an advantage. The cbc-hmac-sha1
needs a lot of hacks to be implemented correct (just take a look at
one of the existing implementations). There is no point to bring such
hacks into kernel especially since these ciphersuites are banned from
HTTP/2.0 (see RFC7540), and have been dropped from TLS 1.3.

> This also seems to work in a synchronous (send one and wait) mode, which is a not good
> solution for HW accelerators, which I'm trying to enable.

Is that something that cannot be addressed?

regards,
Nikos