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Sat, 16 Dec 2006

2.6.19 kernel acrypto release.


Acrypto allows to handle crypto requests asynchronously in hardware.

Acrypto supports following features:

• multiple asynchronous crypto device queues
• crypto session routing (allows to complete single crypto session when several operations (crypto, hmac, anything) are completed)
• crypto session binding (bind crypto processing to specified device)
• modular load balancing (one can created load balancer which will get into account for example pid of the calling process)
• crypto session batching genetically implemented by design (acrypto provides the whole data structure to crypto device, i.e. it is possible to use acrypto as a bridge which routes requests between completely different devices, since it does not differentiate between users, just handles requests)
• crypto session priority
• different kinds of crypto operation(RNG, asymmetrical crypto, HMAC and any other)

• acrypto core
• IPsec ESP4 port to acrypto
• dm-crypt port to acrypto
• OCF to acrypto bridge, which allows to run OCF device drivers with acrypto (for example ixp4xx), requires OCF installed.

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