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Linux Ready To Upstream Support For Google's PSP Encryption For TCP Connections


Not to be confused with AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP), but Google's PSP Security Protocol (PSP) for encryption in-transit for TCP network connections is now ready for the mainline kernel

After going through thirteen rounds of review, this Google PSP Security Protocol support for encrypting data in transit with TCP connections is expected to be merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel. Google's PSP shares some concepts with IPsec ESP and is an encryption encapsulation layer on top of IP for large-scale data center needs. Daniel Zahka wrote on the merge request now queued into net-next:"This is v13 of the PSP RFC posted by Jakub Kicinski one year ago.

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