Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:25:23 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Are there any users of accelerated asymmetric cryptography? Message-ID: <20111112092523.GA2327@garage.freebsd.pl>
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--WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi. I'm in the process of rewriting large parts of the opencrypto framework and was wondering if there are any users that actually make use of asymmetric cryptography. From what I see only ubsec(4) driver supports it and from what I remember those cards are hard to find. If there are no users of this functionality I plan to remove support for asym crypto from the opencrypto framework. It is just too hard to maintain this without test hardware and also quite pointless if nobody uses it. If some users can be found and they really need it, we have two options: 1. Keep asym crypto around, but whoever steps up have to be ready to test patches. 2. Use alternative way of accessing it (eg. via direct ioctl to ubsec device), at least until we start to support more cards. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk6+O4IACgkQForvXbEpPzRC6ACg0lhaejPpVuAe1s2Z6LbujGzR zwoAnidSNUWQYnBslVP8hIYnnahNRiUF =kIKG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--
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