Re: communicating from the user space

Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2015, 08:39:05 schrieb sri sowj:

Hi sri,

Hi Stephen,

Thank you very much for the information provided.

I will try to explore more on AF_ALG , in between please can you also
provide information regarding below ?
#1: how openssl communicates to crypto h/w using PF_ALG

Search the net, there is an engine available

#2: How man algorithms are supported?

All that the kernel crypto API supports

#3: are there any samples to get start with.

Maybe you look into libkcapi -- there are plenty of examples.

but if you can provide some info regarding cryptodev-linux from the
openssl prospect it will be more helpful.

cryptodev-linux is not merged into the kernel and it looks that it never will 
considering the presence of AF_ALG

BR,
Srisowj

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Stephan Mueller [off-list ref] 

wrote:

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Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2015, 01:27:04 schrieb sri sowj:

Hi sri,

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Hi ,

I want to interact with Crypto Hardware from user space using openssl
like libraries based applications through cryptodev-linux interface.

it looks like openssl comes with cryptodev-linux support(through
eng_cryptodev.c) .
When I downloaded openssl,eng_cryptodev.c file is available by default.

below link refers about eng_cryptodev.c for openssl support :

http://repo.or.cz/w/cryptodev-linux.git/commitdiff/56cc4e3b8b761cb34f928f
4ee e59755d1f0afc53

Note:looks like there are some additional changes done on
eng_cryptodev.c file available in updated openssl source code.

There seems to be some changes/patches  also available recently for
cryptodev-linux,below contains reference information.

http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2770&user=guest&pass=guest


Please let me know if my understanding is incorrect .

See AF_ALG and a generic user space library around it:

http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html

quoted

BR,
Srisowj
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