1 This is a /dev/crypto device driver, equivalent to those in OpenBSD or
2 FreeBSD. The main idea is to access of existing ciphers in kernel space
3 from userspace, thus enabling re-use of a hardware implementation of a
6 It was initially written for linux 2.6.8 by Michal Ludvig. Compatibility
7 fixes for *BSD cryptodev as well as porting to 2.6.27 blkcipher API
8 by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. Initial blkcipher async API porting by
9 Michael Weiser. Zero copy support was implemented by Phil Sutter.
11 Maintained by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (nmav [at] gnutls [dot] org)