On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:36:24PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
quoted text
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:05:45 +0900
> > 
> > > Of course, we need to balance any effort spent on this with the
> > > likelihood that hardware improvements will soon make this obsolete
> > > (for IPsec anyway).
> > 
> > True, but old hardware will always exist.
> 
> ...Also, producing buggy hardware will not suddently just vanish either 
> ("can you please turn of ipsec offloading and see if you can still
> reproduce" :-))...

That's fine.  If your AES hardware is buggy you just fall back
to using the software version.

In fact if this was done through the crypto API it would even
happen automatically.

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