Re: [ACRYPTO] New asynchronous crypto layer (acrypto) release.

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:17:58PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu (sam@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >>>>> "Evgeniy" == Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Evgeniy> Hello.  I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer
> Evgeniy> (acrypto) [1] release for 2.6.18 kernel tree. Acrypto allows
> Evgeniy> to handle crypto requests asynchronously in hardware.
> 
> Would userspace programs benefit from this patch? In particular, would
> OpenSSL get better performances on Via nehemiah CPUs or does it need
> to be patched?

Userspace supports Via Nehemiah CPUs crypto engine quite for a long time
without any external patching.

>   Sam
> -- 
> Samuel Tardieu -- sam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.rfc1149.net/

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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