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To: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
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Subject: Re: Cryptographic hardware support
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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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