On 05/23/2011 04:12 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> My question, is how hard is this to implement the hardware support 
>> non-openssl programs.
> 
> Not particularly hard if you're writing your own crypto implementation 
> anyway, but there's a lot to be said for just linking against OpenSSL. 
> It's probably safer to link against the library that has a lot of eyes 
> on it than it is to implement your own.
> 
>> OpenAFS could use this as it can use a lot of DES 
>> encryption, but it uses its own DES implementation. It also happens to 
>> be the only one I can think of off the top of my head that uses its own 
>> implementation. It would be nice to have.

gpg seems to use its own AES implementation that's slower than SSL's.
It would certainly be nice to fix that to use acceleration.

Andrew.

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