From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423010AbWJaJLc (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:11:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423011AbWJaJLc (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:11:32 -0500 Received: from web23106.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([217.146.189.46]:2928 "HELO web23106.mail.ird.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1423010AbWJaJLb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:11:31 -0500 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=k/eeQbx/CytRqrZMyNL02+To47gRxKy0YTy6seZ1Gp+j9AiGpaTYIJkpbtWLgxslZ4ZdP6RLIHJhLxn3YeWgp+kRyo76+M+q8tg2a6iFmSAdz9o98cD9ci8PSdCV+hsYpU4Infc8s+S/Rc9a3u+s+r4g6iL45SfEiznNs48Inok= ; Message-ID: <20061031091126.37294.qmail@web23106.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:11:26 +0000 (GMT) From: moreau francis Subject: [CRYPTO] Use aes hardware crypto device from userspace [Try #2] 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