[PATCHv4 3/7] crypto: sa2ul: add sha1/sha256/sha512 support

Tero Kristo t-kristo at ti.com
Tue Jun 30 04:17:30 EDT 2020


On 30/06/2020 10:59, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:58:28AM +0300, Tero Kristo wrote:
>>
>> Openssl uses init->update->final sequencing, and it would be nice to have
>> this use crypto accelerator. Otherwise we basically support cipher
>> acceleration from openssl, but not hashing.
> 
> You're referring to algif_hash, right? If so it'd be much easier
> to implement the buffering in user-space.

algif_hash / cryptodev can both be used via openssl, but I think both of 
them have the same limitation, yeah.

Anyways, sounds like you prefer dropping any hacks towards this from the 
kernel driver, so I'll just do that and consider patching the upper 
layers for openssl maybe...

-Tero
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