On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29 Oct 2004, jamal wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:06, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >
> >
> > > If we have a hardware accelerator chip, than we _already_ have
> > > improvements
> > > with even the worst async crypto layer, since software and hardware
> > > will work in parrallel.
> >
> > Thats what i am hoping - and theory points to it. Numbers, numbers
> > please ;->
>
> There's an OpenBSD paper which demonstrates the usefulness of crypto
> hardware for reducing cpu contention. I can't get to their web site now,
> but it's there somewhere under a security link.
Asynchronous crypto layer was written under impression of those paper.
OpenBSD layer is very good, but it has some nitpics some of which are really
not good, but I hope all of them are resolved in my driver.
You can find paper for example there: http://www.madchat.org/crypto/ocf.pdf
>
> - James
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> James Morris
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Evgeniy Polyakov
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