From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 14 12:26:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from musique.teaser.net (musique.teaser.net [213.91.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C11B37B41E for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:26:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (nantes.kisoft-services.com [193.56.60.243]) by musique.teaser.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38AD7250E; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:26:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3F89FE6C99; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:27:01 +0100 (CET) To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: Mailing List FreeBSD Arch Subject: Re: Cryptographic hardware support References: <867kqm1rb4.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com> <20020114135843.J59128@prism.flugsvamp.com> From: Eric Masson In-Reply-To: <20020114135843.J59128@prism.flugsvamp.com> (Jonathan Lemon's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:58:43 -0600") X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:27:00 +0100 Message-ID: <86n0zgoezv.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com> Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Lemon writes: Jonathan> The OpenBSD driver doesn't fit completely into the FreeBSD Jonathan> framework, and the existing driver needs substantial cleanup Jonathan> as well. From a quick glance at the code, It didn't look familiar (I'm trying to understand driver programming atm) Jonathan> The OpenBSD guys are currently revamping their framework, so Jonathan> the target is in a state of flux. Too bad, a common api for offloading (ipsec, rng, ssl computations) would be nice. Jonathan> Yes, I have funding to do crytographic hardware offloading. I Jonathan> have some sample boards from PowerCrypt and Soekris, and hope Jonathan> to have the code ready for distribution by the end of the Jonathan> month. Jonathan> This would include the drivers for the board, as well as the Jonathan> network changes to support offloading. Great news, my little experimentation box (podp5v83) lacks power for ipsec and a Soekris vpn1201 would really help. Thanks for your answer. Eric -- >Une RedHat (je ne connais pas les autres distributions) ce configure >aussi simplement que windows pour un poste client. Hélas, elle génère un maximum de traffic sur Usenet -+- TP in guide du linuxien pervers - "Je veux revoir ma SLS ! -+- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message