Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 23:17:53 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM BDE stats / questions about crypto transformations Message-ID: <20118.1065215873@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:15:54 EDT." <6.0.0.22.0.20031003153910.083e3410@209.112.4.2>
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In message <6.0.0.22.0.20031003153910.083e3410@209.112.4.2>, Mike Tancsa writes: >However, overall the CPU is lower when running with the hifn >card defined in the kernel. It makes a large difference in CPU usage when >scp'ing a file across using 3des. Perhaps when the new Soekris card which >does AES comes out, these numbers will speed up. > >In the mean time is anyone using this in production ? Are you using any >USB keys for the storing the pass phrase ? If so, can you give me some >details as to how you set it up ? I have a rewrite of the userland tool (gbde(8)) in progress, amongst other things it will improve the key-handling a fair bit. I don't have an ETA right now, but I hope to make it before 5.2 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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