From ac4b8802a5b1a5f5a7fd5b937b55405546b0c19b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:56:20 +0100 Subject: Added short history. --- README | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 49dfeba..5554a5e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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. -- cgit