From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 10:57:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60A216A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BA343D3F for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i38HvU7j018101 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id i38HvTZ2016638 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20040408112048.07218a00@209.112.4.2> References: <26486.1081437513@critter.freebsd.dk> <6.0.3.0.0.20040408112048.07218a00@209.112.4.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3009DCC4-8986-11D8-88D0-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:57:23 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:57:30 -0000 On Apr 8, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > The hifn driver registers itself to accelerate DES, Triple-DES, AES > (7955 > and 7956 only), ARC4, MD5, MD5-HMAC, SHA1, and SHA1-HMAC > operations for > > And even then, openssl is not necessarily tied to the card's > functions. For sure des and aes do work, but in my limited tests > against a server with apache-ssl installed, it doesnt seem to make use > of the card. I can second/confirm Mike's observations here. I've got a pair of HI/FN 7951 cards which gets used by SSH if I select 3DES, but there is no sign that Apache attempts to use it for either the public-key RSA/DSA crypto during HTTPS session startup, nor later for the symmetric crypto. -- -Chuck