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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:46:18 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Patrick =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= <patfbsd@davenulle.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)
Message-ID:  <200807101146.m6ABkJib035927@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20080710130904.6c06fdfb@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local>
References:  <20080606234135.46144207@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local> <20080622170507.5ac469d2@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local> <200807091931.m69JVWej032290@lava.sentex.ca> <20080710130904.6c06fdfb@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local>

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At 07:09 AM 7/10/2008, Patrick Lamaizi=E8re wrote:
>I've found, i think. The Geode handles only AES with a 128 bits key.
>
>When setkey/ipsec opens a crypto session, the driver returns an error
>(EINVAL) if the key length is !=3D 128. So setkey fails.
>
>There is no way to tell to the crypto framework that we can do only AES
>with 128 bits keys. It is a problem in this case.

Hi,
         Yes, that appears to be it!

>I don't have any solution, I can just add a BUG section in the man
>page for this case.

Perhaps just a limitation/caveat as opposed to a=20
bug :)   Thanks for porting this over!  I will=20
give it a try with openvpn next.  Any plans to integrate it into the tree ?

         ---Mike=20




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