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by cormorant 43 days ago
It's not faster than userspace, it's much slower normally. On special boards with crypto accelerators it can be faster, and there can be compliance reasons to want it. References: [1] https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/ch01s02.html [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/410763/ [3] https://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/linux/encryption#PerformaceC...