From owner-freebsd-small Mon Apr 16 9:30:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92C537B423 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3GGU2u09734; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:30:02 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:30:02 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ultimate board! Message-ID: <20010416093002.B6076@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3AD91B9A.581D977D@aurora.regenstrief.org> <5.0.0.25.0.20010415060946.057f0e80@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010415060946.057f0e80@mail.Go2France.com>; from LConrad@Go2France.com on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:12:35AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:12:35AM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: >=20 > >hub :-(. I understand that the 486 class CPU is sort of a bottleneck > >for encryption work though, but Soren wanted to build a Hi/Fn based > >hardware crypto board too. Will be some fiddling with drivers though ... >=20 > Since FreeBSD has no hardware crypto support (vs OpenBSD) and none is=20 > on the announced horizon afaik, I conclude that "fiddling with=20 > drivers" is understating the difficulty of adding hardware crypto support. Mark Murray is currently working on integrating the OpenBSD kernel crypto support required to suport hardware crypto. If only someone built a cardbus crypto accelerator for my laptop. ;-) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE62x4JXY6L6fI4GtQRAlPmAKCtajh7z+Qqw8zafwM0VgZa7qvkPACbBCfO A/tvmKOeIZhGnGYVvG3I4a8= =BfTk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message