Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:29:05 -0500 From: "Jack Xiao" <jack_xiao99@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: hardware encryption under freebsd Message-ID: <OE66ELVP4zi6UUG7WGM000064ef@hotmail.com>
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Hi All, It's said "A new in-kernel cryptographic framework (see crypto(4) and crypto(9)) has been imported from OpenBSD. It provides a consistent interface to hardware and software implementations of cryptographic algorithms for use by the kernel and access to cryptographic hardware for user-mode applications. Hardware device drivers are provided to support hifn-based cards ( hifn(4)) and Broadcom-based cards ( ubsec(4))." "A FAST_IPSEC kernel option now allows the IPsec implementation to use the kernel crypto(4) framework, along with its support for hardware cryptographic acceleration. More information can be found in the fast_ipsec(4) manual page." In this case, if I want to use hardware encryption/decryption, should I use fast_ipsec instead of ipsec in the kenerl option? By the way, I am using FreeBSD 4.7 Release. I am also curious if anybody has such experience in this group before my trial. How's the performance? Thanks. Jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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