Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:15:37 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: Jack Xiao <jack_xiao99@hotmail.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware encryption under freebsd Message-ID: <20030208001537.GA81860@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <05d201c2ced6$49f96700$52557f42@errno.com> References: <OE66ELVP4zi6UUG7WGM000064ef@hotmail.com> <05d201c2ced6$49f96700$52557f42@errno.com>
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--EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Sam Leffler wrote: > > 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 f= or > > 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? >=20 > 4.7-release does not have the new ipsec code. I can't recall if the cryp= to > code got in. No, it's a 4.7-STABLE thing. Note that the original poster quoted the release notes from 4.7-STABLE, even though he's running 4.7-RELEASE. Bruce. --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+REwo2MoxcVugUsMRAoTvAKCV4MqjD/udxlHxjA6bHByIxiUZvwCeICKN 9M7Bh+0lhQxzcsJjDaeUUQA= =7o8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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