On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 03:54:27PM -0700, Deep Debroy wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if anyone has pointers for a crypto library > implementing AES CBC and GCM that I can use for encrypting network packets > in a DPDK app's datapath. > > The app is supposed to run in a VM in the cloud. So access to crypto > acceleration hardware (besides Intel AES NI/pmuludq) may not be present. > > Does it make sense to look into OpenSSL and invoking it's APIs from a DPDK > app? > > Thanks! >
The openssl libcrypto library provides most of the above I think. You can also just use the AF_ALG protocol to leverage the kernels crypto resources. Neil
