On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 17:17 +0530, Animesh Das wrote: > > I have a new hardware crypto engine. The device can be accessed > from user space application opening the device like > "/dev/mydevice". There are also some IOCTLs which can be used from > user space. I want to add that device as one of the engines of > OpenSSL so that the encryption/decryption process can be offloaded > to that device. > > I have new to OpenSSL. Could you please help me giving ideas/steps > to add that engine in OpenSSL.
My first inclination is to say "don't". Make it a PKCS#11 provider instead, and let OpenSSL use it through engine_pkcs11. (OpenSSL really ought to gain first-class support for PKCS#11 too, FWIW). -- dwmw2
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