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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