From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423212AbWJYK1b (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:27:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423213AbWJYK1b (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:27:31 -0400 Received: from web23113.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([217.146.189.53]:39837 "HELO web23113.mail.ird.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1423212AbWJYK1a convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:27:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ZmwNv5sJKYBC/JnzK+FS/dVY5g2nl0YI9iKsEKDz12v50DewFsReEwcT46/zKSj18w9uUSS3fitZVt3zqivwVtM1DFEF7tVVjOP+1gU/Cx6MFyk90CWrR5OTAgvvsTLezC7nz8VhbPIV9FHbTKvYwEYzPpdKlXPipj5i/mbr3ws= ; Message-ID: <20061025102726.75828.qmail@web23113.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:27:26 +0200 (CEST) From: moreau francis Subject: [CRYPTO] Use aes hardware crypto device from userspace To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I need to make AES ciphering in a userspace application. My platform has an integrated crypto engine which is used by the kernel through the core cryptographic API. Is it possible to export easily this hardware to userspace just by writing a dumb driver that would rely on the core crypto API ? Are there any races issues ? Thanks Francis ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com