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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:30:33 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: patch to improve AES-NI performance
Message-ID:  <86d2p419ye.fsf@nine.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20130823185241.GO94127@funkthat.com> (John-Mark Gurney's message of "Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:52:41 -0700")
References:  <20130822202027.GH94127@funkthat.com> <20130823151615.GD41379@roberto02-aw.erc.corp.eurocontrol.int> <52177F0B.9020906@sentex.net> <20130823180513.GM94127@funkthat.com> <5217A7B5.8040904@sentex.net> <20130823185241.GO94127@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> writes:
> Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> writes:
> > John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> writes:
> > > My patch would only effect userland applications that use /dev/crypto=
...
> > For me its ssh which I think does, no ?
> It looks like it uses OpenSSL for it's crypto, not /dev/crypto...

It uses OpenSSL engines, which use /dev/crypto.  This is why we had to
turn off sandbox mode - a CRIOGET ioctl fails because the sandbox code
sets RLIMIT_NOFILES to 0.

(trimming security@ from the cc: list as it's an alias for secteam@
which is not the appropriate venue for this discussion.)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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