Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:34:38 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware crypto and SSL? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031022132622.081f4058@209.112.4.2> In-Reply-To: <200310221008.30969.sam@errno.com> References: <20031022032740.GA2605@dub.net> <6.0.0.22.0.20031021233604.0807f8a0@209.112.4.2> <6.0.0.22.0.20031022102925.04d56660@209.112.4.2> <200310221008.30969.sam@errno.com>
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At 01:08 PM 22/10/2003, Sam Leffler wrote:
>The hifn 7955-based cards from Soekris should be available soon.
Last I heard from them was some time in November the cards in theory would
be available for sale, but that was not a hard date. We have about 60 of
his mini PCI based cards and a half dozen of the regular PCI cards deployed
and they all work as advertised.
>There are still some issues to work out in the driver but between Jason and I
>it should be well supported in time. The big win is that it's got AES and PK
>support and should be inexpensive.
That would be excellent! I am anxious to try this newer card in
conjunction with PHK's encrypted file system when 5.2 comes out. Actually,
the encrypted GEOM BDE would make use of the crypto card right ?
---Mike
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