Re: [CRYPTO] Use aes hardware crypto device from userspace [Try #2]

[dean gaudet]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, moreau francis wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I need to make AES ciphering in a userspace application. My platform
> has an integrated crypto engine which is used by the kernel through
> the core cryptographic API.
> 
> Is it possible to export easily this hardware to userspace just by writing
> a dumb driver that would rely on the core crypto API ?  Are there any
> races issues ?

perhaps this is of interest:

http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/

-dean
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