From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 18 19:37:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07ED31065671 for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 19:37:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mav@mavhome.dp.ua) Received: from cmail.optima.ua (cmail.optima.ua [195.248.191.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B58B8FC20 for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 19:37:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mav@mavhome.dp.ua) X-Spam-Flag: SKIP X-Spam-Yversion: Spamooborona-2.1.0 Received: from [212.86.226.226] (account mav@alkar.net HELO [192.168.3.2]) by cmail.optima.ua (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.14) with ESMTPA id 129327562 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 21:37:47 +0300 Message-ID: <48307778.9090802@mavhome.dp.ua> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 21:37:44 +0300 From: Alexander Motin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1211073790.00071553.1211061602@10.7.7.3> In-Reply-To: <1211073790.00071553.1211061602@10.7.7.3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Crypto on motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:37:51 -0000 Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote: > After I loaded a driver (ubsec), I saw this line in the log: > > cryptosoft0: 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