Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
Hi,
today I discovered the following dmesg line on my laptop:
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
and I've not seen this one before, so: what is cryptosoft and should I
care?
I could imagine it's a pseudo-device by crypto(9) so the API is the same
whether crypto hardware is installed or not.
Anyway, I think a manpage link/update would be in order:
% man -k cryptosoft
cryptosoft: nothing appropriate
It is what you suggest; a device associated with s/w crypto support. It
was created so crypto requests can be submitted specifically to it
(instead of a h/w device). This is currently used only for testing but
the intent was also to use it when doing load-balancing and similar work.
Sam
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