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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 23:17:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: GEOM BDE stats / questions about crypto transformations 
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In message <6.0.0.22.0.20031003153910.083e3410@209.112.4.2>, Mike Tancsa writes:

>However, overall the CPU is lower when running with the hifn 
>card defined in the kernel.  It makes a large difference in CPU usage when 
>scp'ing a file across using 3des.  Perhaps when the new Soekris card which 
>does AES comes out, these numbers will speed up.
>
>In the mean time is anyone using this in production ?  Are you using any 
>USB keys for the storing the pass phrase ?  If so, can you give me some 
>details as to how you set it up ?

I have a rewrite of the userland tool (gbde(8)) in progress, amongst other
things it will improve the key-handling a fair bit.  I don't have an
ETA right now, but I hope to make it before 5.2

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