Abstract: Implementations are provided herein for maintaining a set of cryptographic algorithms in the kernel. User space applications can call on the set of cryptographic logic algorithms in the kernel to perform computations on data payloads residing in kernel space memory without having to copy the data payloads out of kernel space memory into user space memory. The results of the cryptographic logic being applied to data payloads can be packaged together with message framing originating from user space and data payloads in the kernel space as a protocol message that can sent through the network stack to a socket. It can be appreciated that by retaining protocol logic in user space, just the cryptographic algorithms need be added to the kernel.