Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 23:37:08 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: chris@pennasoft.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gbde performance question Message-ID: <30531.1053812228@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 May 2003 13:22:37 EDT." <200305241322.37065.chris@pennasoft.com>
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In message <200305241322.37065.chris@pennasoft.com>, Chris BeHanna writes: >On Tuesday 20 May 2003 08:29, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <20030520120114.U60060@daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer >writes: >> >but i still don't see why the processes that are named gbde-something >> >would take up _that_ much cpu time ... does that look reasonable and >> >explicable to you? >> >> The crypto work _does_ take time. I am only just starting to measure >> how much for my GBDE paper now, so I don't really have anything >> to compare your numbers with. > > Would hardware crypto or hardware RNG help? Eventually it will, but right now I have no access to any AES hw, so I have put off integrating support for hw-assisted crypto until at point in time where I can actually test it. Sam says he may know of some AES able hardware in the pipeline, I'm keeping my hopes pinned on that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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