AF_ALG support?

[Corey W Sheldon]

On 11/5/17 10:48 AM, Stephan Müller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a desire to have support for AF_ALG on Linux added to libgcrypt for 
> accessing hardware cipher implementations? I am thinking of the patch set 
> provided to GnuTLS as found in https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/308.
>
> I would volunteer to provide such implementation.
>
> If such support is desired, how shall it be integrated into the existing 
> libgcrypt code tree? Currently, different cipher implementations are selected 
> at compile time with ifdefs. Should there simply be another ifdef added for 
> AF_ALG?
>
> Ciao
> Stephan
>
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I'll help with the cycles I have for such an effort.

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