[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add inline encryption support for dm-crypt

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Thu Jan 13 21:22:03 UTC 2022


On 1/13/22 10:09, Israel Rukshin wrote:
> I am working to add support for inline encryption/decryption
> at storage protocols like nvmf over RDMA. The HW that I am
> working with is ConnecX-6 Dx, which supports inline crypto
> and can send the data on the fabric at the same time.
> 
> This patchset is based on v5.16-rc4 with Eric Biggers patches
> of the HW wrapped keys.
> It can be retrieved from branch "wip-wrapped-keys" at
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt.git
> 
> I tested this patch with modified nvme-rdma as the block device
> and created a DM crypt on top of it. I got performance enhancement
> compared to SW crypto. I tested the HW wrapped inline mode with
> the HW and the standard mode with a fallback algorithm.

Hi Israel,

Thank you for your work. For future patches related to inline 
encryption, please Cc Eric Biggers.

Thanks,

Bart.




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