Hi, today I discovered the following dmesg line on my laptop: cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard and I've not seen this one before, so: what is cryptosoft and should I care? I could imagine it's a pseudo-device by crypto(9) so the API is the same whether crypto hardware is installed or not. Anyway, I think a manpage link/update would be in order: % man -k cryptosoft cryptosoft: nothing appropriate Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt.
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:> Hi, > > today I discovered the following dmesg line on my laptop: > > cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard > > and I've not seen this one before, so: what is cryptosoft and should I > care? > > I could imagine it's a pseudo-device by crypto(9) so the API is the same > whether crypto hardware is installed or not. > > Anyway, I think a manpage link/update would be in order: > > % man -k cryptosoft > cryptosoft: nothing appropriate > >It is what you suggest; a device associated with s/w crypto support. It was created so crypto requests can be submitted specifically to it (instead of a h/w device). This is currently used only for testing but the intent was also to use it when doing load-balancing and similar work. Sam