IPSec improvement

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 03:14:00PM +0200, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 02:36:15PM +0400, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > I am plan to do some improve in IPSec stack:
> > 
> > - AES-GCM support (from OpenBSD)
> 
> Dylan Castine already started to work on that last year (see ML's
> archives), and we took some time to work together on that.
> 
> Unfortunately, patch hasn't been commited since, as Dylan needed some
> more time to do some important cleanups on the code.
> 
> I'll try to recontact Dylan to see if he could take time to finish
> that.

OK, you inform about progress in this list?

> > - GOST 28147-89 and 34.10-2001 support (by modules)
> > - support for IPSec acceleration in network cards
> 
> What kind of acceleration, in which kind of network card ?
> 
> Are you talking about encryption/authentication done in the network
> card (or CPUs, or .....), or do you want to use advanced IPsec
> offloading provided by some chipsets ?

IPSec offloadin (ex. Intel 82599).