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Date:      Sun, 18 May 2008 21:37:44 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@mavhome.dp.ua>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crypto on motherboard
Message-ID:  <48307778.9090802@mavhome.dp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <1211073790.00071553.1211061602@10.7.7.3>
References:  <1211073790.00071553.1211061602@10.7.7.3>

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Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote:
> After I loaded a driver (ubsec), I saw this line in the log:
> 
> cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
> 
> Is it something I can take advantage of?

This is software cryptography pseudo-driver working without any real 
hardware acceleration. It is used by IPSec, geli and some other 
subsystems when there is no any hardware cryptography accelerator 
present in system.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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