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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:42:38 +0100
From:      Eric Masson <e-masson@kisoft-services.com>
To:        "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        "Mailing List FreeBSD Arch" <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cryptographic hardware support
Message-ID:  <86zo3gq169.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com>
In-Reply-To: <1e6601c19cb0$41606ca0$5a557f42@errno.com> ("Sam Leffler"'s message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:02:15 -0800")
References:  <867kqm1rb4.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com> <1e6601c19cb0$41606ca0$5a557f42@errno.com>

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>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> writes:

 Sam> I'm working on this to support Hifn 7951 parts in Soekris net4501
 Sam> machines.

Great, Soekris pci module is the main reason of this inquiry, it's
damned cheap compared to the average price of cryto devices.

 Sam> Initially I'm just porting the OpenBSD driver and crypto framework
 Sam> so I can accelerate IPsec and get access to the RNG.

So you need to patch the ip stack to defer all crypto computations to
the crypto subsystem, don't you ?

 Sam> With luck I'll have something to test drive in a couple of weeks.

Do you work on current or stable ?

Thanks for your answer.

Eric Masson

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