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Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by wolf550e on Saturday April 20, 2019 @01:38PM (#19707764)
A doc laying out the rationale for the choice of primitives in virtio-crypto [1] would be very nice. The choice is weird. Also, I couldn't find links to actual specs of the named supported primitives, seems we should understand what they mean by name alone.

1 - https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/cs01/virtio-v...

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Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by zokier on Saturday April 20, 2019 @04:35PM (#19708725)
I see pretty high overlap with dpdk cryptodev primitives[1]. If I had to guess, they are related and probably based on what actual hardware provides and that is known to be used in some key applications (e.g. 4G/LTE infrastructure).

https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-18.11/cryptodevs/overview.html

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