Hi Herbert and others,
attached is a patch with support for VIA C7 crypto engine providing
SHA1/SHA256 digests. It compiles into a new module padlock-sha.ko.
Currently it allocates 1 page for its buffer and if there are more data
to be hashed it falls back to software SHA implementation. By
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:57:55PM +1200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
Here are some benchmarks from tcrypt.ko (mode=303 for sha1 and mode=304
for sha256):
Looks impressive!
The only thing I'd like to tweak is to use the newly added template
mechanism to pick the fallback. But you don't have to
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 03:21:41PM +1000, herbert wrote:
Also, we can probably bring down the 16-byte numbers if we change the
digest layer to cater for a direct digest interface that takes one sg
entry, i.e., if it's one sg entry then feed it directly to the algo's
digest function,
