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[jira] [Commented] (CRYPTO-162) openSslCipher support engine

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Jochen Wiedmann commented on CRYPTO-162:
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Okay. So, what would you want us to do here? Read random bits from a device file?

 

> openSslCipher support engine
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: CRYPTO-162
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRYPTO-162
>             Project: Commons Crypto
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Cipher
>            Reporter: wenweijian
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The engine is the hardware or software implementation used for performing cryptographic operations.
>  
> Assume we have a hardware device with a super fast implementation of AES. Now when we use AES encryption we can set the engine to that hardware device (instead of {{{}NULL{}}}), which means that the operations are now computed by the hardware device instead of the default OpenSSL software layer.
>  



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