[Openswan dev] Accelerating IPSec

[Panayotis Tziaros]

David McCullough wrote:

>Jivin Panayotis Tziaros lays it down ...
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>CryptoAPI is used for both ciphers and hashes (auth),  check in
>ipsec_alg.c for the code.
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>No,  it can use either the builtin ones or the CryptoAPI (ALG) ones.
>Look for the various ifdef CONFIG_KLIPS_ALG's to find the code.
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OK I'll check the code to find the link points  to cryptoAPI.

>If you are implementing a HW solution,  and it is capable of
>asynchronous (ie., interrupt driven) operation perhaps you should look
>at:
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>	http:/ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/
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>It gives you a framework for accelerating OpenSwan, OpenSSL and OpenSSH
>and other things,
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Yes, the device is capable of asynchronous operation so this solution is 
very interesting and I'll definitely look at it soon.

>Cheers,
>Davidm
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Thank you very much.

Regards,
Panayotis