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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2010-07-29 09:14:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2010-07-29 09:16:07 +0200 |
| commit | 047bd90807930f589df5aae1a632a831fca976bb (patch) | |
| tree | 35a50b14c98c14e8c9130fdf305fa368f51834ba | |
| parent | ba92b699323738ea883b5c8226b3b1e565cd9649 (diff) | |
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updated README.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 1 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +=== NCR API === + This is the linux-cryptodev NCR branch. The ioctl() API is in ncr.h. For the new API to fully operate, root must load a system key (constant @@ -8,14 +10,21 @@ $ chmod 600 /boot/key $ userspace/ncr-setkey /boot/key The main concept of the new API is disallow userspace applications -access to cryptographic keys. Operations should be possible (such -as encryption/decryption/signing/verifying), but raw access to the -keys will not be possible. +access to cryptographic keys. Operations are possible (such as +encryption/decryption/signing/verifying), but raw access to the +keys is not be possible. +=== OpenBSD crypto compatibility === A compatibility API using OpenBSD's interface via /dev/crypto device driver -is supported. +is supported. This enables access to kernel space cipher implementations +and hardware accelerators. + + + +For questions and suggestions please use the mailing lists at: +http://home.gna.org/cryptodev-linux/lists.html Maintained by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (nmav [at] gnutls [dot] org) @@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ * Put limits to sessions * Export private keys to PKCS #8 format (can it be implemented?) * Documentation for functions +* Is a writev() like interface needed? |