Re: Asynchronous crypto layer.

[Sam Leffler <sam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 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
And a paper I wrote explains how I fixed many of the problems with the 
openbsd code in freebsd.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/leffler_crypto/leffler_crpto_html/

In the same proceedings you'll also find a horrible paper I wrote about 
some performance tuning I did in my IPsec implementation that uses the 
crypto infrastructure.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/leffler_ipsec/leffler_ipsec_html/

        Sam