From ad1c16ec19dddb272d6e4fd8b1a368444fff08c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:28:33 +0200 Subject: updated --- README | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 8e80fcb..aacd304 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -This is the linux-cryptodev [newapi] branch. Here a new API is being -designed. The ioctl() API is in ncr.h and the userspace in ncrypto.h. +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 -per system) using the setkey program. After this stage the new API should +per system) using the ncr-setkey program. After this stage the new API should be fully operational. Example: $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/boot/key count=1 bs=16 $ chmod 600 /boot/key @@ -15,11 +14,8 @@ keys will not be possible. -The old OpenBSD API via /dev/crypto device driver is still supported. +A compatibility API using OpenBSD's interface via /dev/crypto device driver +is supported. -It was initially written for linux 2.6.8 by Michal Ludvig. Compatibility -fixes for *BSD cryptodev as well as porting to 2.6.27 blkcipher API -by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. Initial blkcipher async API porting by -Michael Weiser. Maintained by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (nmav [at] gnutls [dot] org) -- cgit