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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2010-07-29 02:28:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2010-07-29 02:28:33 +0200 |
| commit | ad1c16ec19dddb272d6e4fd8b1a368444fff08c3 (patch) | |
| tree | adf4d5aa0a8128307d4f159b7c8a245127f7860a /README | |
| parent | 7a31387b49e0b04ba43bdf6fbc869c6a3e970251 (diff) | |
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@@ -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) |