From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 12:49:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BF837BD7D; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p53-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.118]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id EAA15943; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 04:49:21 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38F624CD.8D3D29BC@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 04:49:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware crypto support References: <20000413103004.A67194@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > Does FreeBSD support hardware crypto? It does. > There'll shortly be a story on /. about OpenBSD's hardware crypto support, > in the form of the HiFn 7751 chip. OpenBSD recommend buying them from > www.powercrypt.com. > > If you go there you'll see that FreeBSD support is listed, but there are > no details. > > If FreeBSD's got support for this card (even if it's through third party > drivers) I'll recast the story so it's more of a "BSD supports hardware > crypto", rather than being solely OpenBSD. But if OpenBSD have it first > they get the honours :-) > > If you're using this (or any other) card for hardware crypto, can you drop > me a line? If you can include real-world performance details as well that'd > be great. I once wrote a driver for a cryptography card for FreeBSD. The hardware was a brazilian one, and the driver was/is being used with a commercial firewall product that is available for a number of platforms, including FreeBSD. I wouldn't be the least surprised if other crypto hardware had drivers available for FreeBSD. Frankly, I see nothing special in the above. It sure didn't took me very long to write the driver. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message