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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2010-01-23 09:04:08 +0100
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+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.