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.
I would guess that the overhead of copying to/from userland is
insignificant when it comes to crypto calculations. And, besides, you
still have to get the keying material from userland unless you are going
to put all the infrastructure in the kernel. At which point, you have
Windows 98.
Cheers,
Ben.
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