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.
sarma
Pascal Gienger wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:01:28PM -0800, Seetharama Sarma Ayyadevara wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Any one ported openssl or ssleay into linux kernel. Are there any
> > projects going on to port ssl into kernel.
>
> Why you would do that? What's the purpose of having crypto and ssl routines
> in the kernel? Do you really need SSL routines as syscalls or for kernel
> routines?
>
> Pascal
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