netdev - Re: network card with inline crypto engine?

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Message-Id: <20080819.015036.223405950.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jcd@...budubois.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: network card with inline crypto engine?

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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