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Mon, 16 Apr 2007

Acrypto is officially closed.


Yes, I close acrypto project after more than two years of maintenance.
The reason is simple - I could not convince Linux kernel community to include acrypto into mainline (neither James Morris - previous crypto maintainer, nor Herbert Xu - current one, did not want to include such massive subsystem into the tree), although I did not tried too hard. I continued to support it as out-of-the-tree package until kernel does not support async API.

This day has come - Herbert Xu proposed a new async interface to synchronous by design Linux cryptoapi.

It looks good (although I do consider it as a hack on top of synchronous software-only crypto api - my opinion has not changed after discussion with Herbert more than a year ago :) and lacks a lot of acrypto features (crypto routing, load balancing, autotuning, prio queues and so on), but something can be added if required.
I decided that dropping acrypto and focus on async cryptoapi is at least some progress in that area.
I plan to start porting HIFN 795x driver from acrypto to cryptoapi soon, it should not take too long to complete.

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