[CRYPTO-162] openSslCipher support engine

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Cipher
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: wenweijian
• Created: 13/Jun/22 11:58
• Updated: 21/Nov/23 19:55

Description

The engine is the hardware or software implementation used for performing cryptographic operations.

 

Assume we have a hardware device with a super fast implementation of AES. Now when we use AES encryption we can set the engine to that hardware device (instead of NULL), which means that the operations are now computed by the hardware device instead of the default OpenSSL software layer.