Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 04:49:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware crypto support Message-ID: <38F624CD.8D3D29BC@newsguy.com> References: <20000413103004.A67194@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > > Does FreeBSD support hardware crypto? It does. > There'll shortly be a story on /. about OpenBSD's hardware crypto support, > in the form of the HiFn 7751 chip. OpenBSD recommend buying them from > www.powercrypt.com. > > If you go there you'll see that FreeBSD support is listed, but there are > no details. > > If FreeBSD's got support for this card (even if it's through third party > drivers) I'll recast the story so it's more of a "BSD supports hardware > crypto", rather than being solely OpenBSD. But if OpenBSD have it first > they get the honours :-) > > If you're using this (or any other) card for hardware crypto, can you drop > me a line? If you can include real-world performance details as well that'd > be great. I once wrote a driver for a cryptography card for FreeBSD. The hardware was a brazilian one, and the driver was/is being used with a commercial firewall product that is available for a number of platforms, including FreeBSD. I wouldn't be the least surprised if other crypto hardware had drivers available for FreeBSD. Frankly, I see nothing special in the above. It sure didn't took me very long to write the driver. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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