From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 24 9:38:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D4C37B401; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA82832; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:38:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: Soren Kristensen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD References: <3B33A891.EC712701@soekris.com> <20010624181007.C52432@mail.webmonster.de> <20010624183147.F52432@mail.webmonster.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 24 Jun 2001 18:38:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010624183147.F52432@mail.webmonster.de> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Karsten W. Rohrbach" writes: > yup, exactly. to me it seems to be a major problem to get some unified > api out of openssl adressing fucnctions on the hardware -- i simply do > not know how other crypto chipsets do it, i just investigated the > rainbow board. they got a patch against openssl 0.9.5 i think, that > glues in the driver calls instead of standard lib functions. Can you dig out this patch for me? It would be a big win if the userland interface to Soren's hardware were compatible with Rainbow's driver. > yes yes yes ;-) you are perfectly right here. i just wanrted to mention > that there is an _existant_ driver and patch against the openssl lib, > also some test programs to look if the driver works, for freebsd 3.x. This would be useful for ensuring compatibility with Rainbow's stuff, especially if, as you say, they have a 4.1 version out now. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message