[dpdk-users] Question on using crypto library (S/W implementation) with DPDK application

[Chinmaya Dwibedy]

Hi Mr. Fiona,


Thank you so much for your valuable response.

Regards,
Chinmaya

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Chinmaya,
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> Sorry for the slow response.
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> There’s a PMD currently under development which may provide what you’re
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> It will provide 3DES_CBC_128/192 with MD5_HMAC, SHA1/SHA224/SHA256_HMAC
> and AES-GMAC.
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> It will translate from dpdk cryptodev API to openssl’s libcrypto for the
> software enablement of these algorithms.
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> See Tim O’Driscoll’s post re 16.11 roadmap on the dev mailing list for
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> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043534.html
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> At the moment there are no plans to integrate with AF_ALG.
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> The performance is unlikely to be satisfactory.
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> Regards,
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> Fiona
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> Hi,
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> Our application will run on VM (Cloud environment). If access to
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> crypto acceleration hardware
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> (besides Intel AES NI/Intel QAT) are not present, what are the
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> different available choices ?
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> Do I need to integrate the OpenSSL or Libgcrypt library and invoke
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> it's APIs from a DPDK application?
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> Can we use the AF_ALG protocol so as to use the kernels crypto framework?
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> Please clarify. Thank you in advance for your support and time.
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> Regards,
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> Chinmaya
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