I would like to regard "SSL in kernel" as accessing SSL functions
through normal socket API. such as the SSL that Microsoft
offered in winsock2.

Seetharama Sarma Ayyadevara wrote:

> hi
>
>     There are crypto accelrator cards that can do crypto on them, freeing the
> CPU. This requires copying of date to/from user space. To avoid this and to
> improve speed  I thought openssl inside the kernel will help. That is why I
> posted the question.
>
> sarma
>
> Pascal Gienger wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:01:28PM -0800, Seetharama Sarma Ayyadevara wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >     Any one ported openssl or ssleay into linux kernel. Are there any
> > > projects going on to port ssl into kernel.
> >
> > Why you would do that? What's the purpose of having crypto and ssl routines
> > in the kernel? Do you really need SSL routines as syscalls or for kernel
> > routines?
> >
> > Pascal
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