netdev - Re: network card with inline crypto engine?

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:38:56 +0200
From:	Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@...budubois.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: network card with inline crypto engine?


Thanks Dave,

I guess you are refering to this proposal:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-01/msg00347.html

And nothing is in the plan at the moment?

JC

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:50:36 -0700 (PDT), David Miller
<davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@...budubois.net>
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:16:56 +0200
> 
>> Is there in the linux tree a "reference" implementation for a network
> card
>> with inline crypto engine that would be used for IPSEC among other
> things.
> 
> Not really.
> 
> Once there was an attempt to support the crypto offload some
> older 3com networking cards have, but that never went anywhere
> and the hooks that were added by that code to the IPSEC stack
> were never in a clean and usable state so never were merged.
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