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re: sync rijndael-alg-fst.c with OpenBSD
Taylor R Campbell writes:
> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 20:26:18 +0100
> From: Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>
>
> If the goal is switching cgd to opencrypto, this is where all
> self-tests should be implemented.
>
> That was a goal a long time ago. It's not clear to me that opencrypto
> is the way to go, though -- opencrypto was designed for an era when
> hardware acceleration meant issuing asynchronous I/O requests over a
> PCI bus, not when hardware acceleration meant executing a CPU
> instruction.
the prior world is still around -- consider intel QAT. i'm
expecting this to be pushed into the cpu core ic at some point,
but still accessed via pci.
.mrg.
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