On 05/24/2011 06:11 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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.
Sounds like it might be a good idea to post a feature request to the upstream bugzilla. Have you checked if there is a build option to make it link against OpenSSL instead of using the bundled crypto stack? Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
