Dear Matt, On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Matt Caswell <m...@openssl.org> wrote:
> > > On 07/10/15 14:29, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > > Should applications generally enable async mode because that might > > be beneficial down the road? Or is this just for exotic hardware > > not likely to be seen in most environments? > > It will only be helpful if you have an engine capable of supporting > async. I can't really answer the question because I don't know how > common this will be. My hope is that this will become relatively common. > I have been toying with the idea of creating a multi-threaded async > engine where the engine manages a pool of threads to offload async work > to which would then offer true async support even if you don't have > specialist hardware. > If we have an engine executing long crypto operations, how can we adopt the engine and software using this engine to process them asynchronously? -- SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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