On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Brad House <b...@monetra.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you want to look into the ocf-linux patchset.
> http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/
>
Thanks Brad  I will look in to in this. I presume my custom hardware
acceleration block need to be ported to OC frame work in order to take
advantage of this OCF. Currently my custom block driver make use Linux
cryptoapi ( similar to padlock-aes driver)

> That said, you should realize that even if you have a hardware
> crypto accelerator, small encryption blocks will probably be
> faster in pure userland due to the penalty of kernel/userland
> context switches, etc.
>
I see what you are saying.

I could see an engine section in openssl source tree.But I am
currently clueless in adding custom device support in openssl. I would
be grateful if you can guide me to some pointers documents.

WBR
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