[fedora-arm] Hardware Crypto Offload on Kirkwood (SheevaPlug)

[Andrew Haley]

On 24/05/11 19:39, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 06:37 PM, Adam Goode wrote:
>> Have a look at this too:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation
>>
>> It was supposed to be the way forward regarding all this. Last I
>> checked, it was only for applications, not libraries, though.
> 
> Now that _IS_ interesting. So NSS is the consolidation target?

As an aside, it is *incredibly* annoying that "NSS" is used as the
name for this, since NSS already has a different meaning on GNU/Linux
systems: Name Service Switch.  But anyway...

> I was under the impression that OpenSSL is a lot more prolific and
> it has more application level support, of the ones listed on the
> page above, at least the following:

Perhaps, but its licence seems to be broken, so it can't be used as a
general-purpose crypto library for Fedora.

Andrew.