AES Crypto Support in Kernel

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Mon May 6 08:22:45 MDT 2013


On Mon, 6 May 2013 09:11:28 -0500
Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shirish,
> Does the recent crypto merge to kernel, which includes these two
> patches for example, help you (at least on the more common chips,
> those with optimized AES offload support)?  Wonder if we can leverage
> the hardware offload in Samba?
> 

Doesn't samba use the NSS libs for this? If so, then they should
already be using the hardware offload since it does internally.

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Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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