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@@ -2,3 +2,8 @@ This is a /dev/crypto device driver, equivalent to those in OpenBSD or FreeBSD. The main idea is to access of existing ciphers in kernel space from userspace, thus enabling re-use of a hardware implementation of a cipher. + +It was initially written for linux 2.6.8 by Michal Ludvig. Compatibility +fixes for *BSD cryptodev as well as Was ported to 2.6.27 blkcipher API +by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. Initial blkcipher async API porting by +Michael Weiser. |