sshd fails when using cryptodev-linux to compute hmac

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024, Roumen Petrov wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> На 9.10.24 г. в 20:31 ч., Peter Rashleigh написа:
> > Hi Damien,
> > 
> >> I don't know anything about cryptodev-linux, but I assume it's an openssl
> engine?
> > Cryptodev-linux is a kernel module that provides access to kernel crypto
> drivers, especially hardware-accelerated crypto, through the /dev/crypto
> device. Openssl implements an engine which interfaces to it.
> 
> OpenBSD hates loadable modules. So you cannot expect support for such 
> functionality.

OpenBSD's dislike of loadable kernel modules has zero bearing on OpenSSH.