Long pause when using pcrypt

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Hi,

As parallel encryption of ipsec is now in the official kernel, I tried to use it, and to actually make ipsec connections use it, I did

  $ modprobe tcrypt alg='pcrypt(authenc(hmac(sha1),cbc(aes)))' type=3

This works, but the computer pauses for about 60s when running the modprobe, and appears to be completely idle in the meantime. Why is that necessary?

Is there another recommended way to instantiate pcrypt, e.g. via netlink? I searched for a while, by browsing the sources, but found nothing appropriate.

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You can try to specify the drivers e.g.

modprobe tcrypt alg="pcrypt(authenc(hmac(sha1-generic),cbc(aes-asm)))" type=3

this should be faster.

Unfortunately not yet, this should change as soon as we have a generic crypto user configuration interface.

Steffen