Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:53:07 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com> To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B363713.2849219@soekris.com> References: <3B33A891.EC712701@soekris.com> <xzpn16x7uao.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010624181007.C52432@mail.webmonster.de> <xzpd77t7st6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010624183147.F52432@mail.webmonster.de> <xzpzoax6dfc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010624201456.A57877@mail.webmonster.de>
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Hi, Thanks for the responses so far. First, let me say that I'm a hardware guy, and don't know all the details of FreeBSD's network stack. There is two common kind of hardware encryption acceleration, and I think they're being mixed a little here. SSL is for secure web access, and the main need is for Public Key generating. This don't really have anything to do with the IP stack. Afaik, OpenSSL is more like a extension to the web server software. IPSec is for secure communication, and the main need is for symmetric data encryption, typically using 3-DES. This need to be closely integrated in the IP stack. The boards I'm doing now, is based on a Hi/fn 7951, with is designed for VPM routers doing IPSec. It's supported in OpenBSD 2.9. And btw, hardware beats software anytime. The fastest PC processor right now is about the same speed as the slowest hardware.... The reason why I posted originally was the figure out who are working on these things, as I remember seing a post some time ago about work being done to import some of the IPSec work from OpenBSD. The Kame project people might be the ones to talk to, but isn't there a need for a FreeBSD specifec hardware driver anyway ? I will be happy to donate hardware to the FreeBSD project. Regards, Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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