Re: Platform specific kernel crypto optimizations

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

> what is the stance on of the OpenBSD project on platform-specific optimizations
> of the kernel crypto code ? 
> 
> Doing some IPSec related work lately, I hacked some optimizations of Rijndael
> and SHA-1 on x86 platforms and am interested in integrating them into the
> OpenBSD kernel tree.

I wouldn't have a problem with these, if they are carefully put into the
tree.  They've got to be merged so that the tree compiles on everything
still.  And of course the licenses on the new blobs of (I assume assembly)
have to be good.