[openssl-dev] Adding async support

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

Dear Matt,

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 07/10/15 14:29, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> >
> > Should applications generally enable async mode because that might
> > be beneficial down the road?  Or is this just for exotic hardware
> > not likely to be seen in most environments?
>
> It will only be helpful if you have an engine capable of supporting
> async. I can't really answer the question because I don't know how
> common this will be. My hope is that this will become relatively common.
> I have been toying with the idea of creating a multi-threaded async
> engine where the engine manages a pool of threads to offload async work
> to which would then offer true async support even if you don't have
> specialist hardware.
>

If we have an engine executing long crypto operations, how can we adopt the
engine and software using this engine to process them asynchronously?


-- 
SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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