Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Shockley
On 4/7/2009 9:43 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: As for the mentioned issue of encrypting the bus data, since you've got the VLAN it is feasible, but if you've got an attacker inside the switches of your datacenter, then you obviously have more important problems. Also, there are a number of

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-08 Thread Joseph C. Bender
J.C. Roberts wrote: As for the mentioned issue of encrypting the bus data, since you've got the VLAN it is feasible, but if you've got an attacker inside the switches of your datacenter, then you obviously have more important problems. Another scenario is that you get a compromised machine

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-08 Thread Felipe Scarel
Forgot to CC the list, my bad. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joseph C. Bender jcben...@bendorius.com wrote: J.C. Roberts wrote: As for the mentioned issue of encrypting the bus data, since you've got the VLAN it is feasible, but if you've got an attacker inside the switches of your

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Shockley
On 4/6/2009 10:23 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: For example if your VPN or secure website is running a little slow, you would usually halt the machine and add a crypto accelerator, but with ExpEther, you just export a crypto accelerator device on another system to the system that needs it and the

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread Declan Ingram
On Tue 07/04/09 9:28 PM , Steve Shockley wrote: On 4/6/2009 10:23 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: For example if your VPN or secure website is running a little slow, you would usually halt the machine and add a crypto accelerator, but with ExpEther, you just export a crypto accelerator device

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Shockley
On 4/7/2009 9:08 AM, Declan Ingram wrote: How does that help if you're encrypting the connection to the ExpEther server/device? I mostly trust that nobody is sniffing my PCI bus, I'm less trusting when data goes over the network. Just tunnel it over SSH That's fine, but then how do I

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:23:59AM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: On 4/7/2009 9:08 AM, Declan Ingram wrote: How does that help if you're encrypting the connection to the ExpEther server/device? I mostly trust that nobody is sniffing my PCI bus, I'm less trusting when data goes over the

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread Marco Peereboom
The design involves a technology called Express Ether though it is typically written as ExpEther, and it is basically a way to run a PCIe bus over ethernet. Though this might be the first you've heard of it, ExpEther has been in development at NEC for the last five years, and yes, I'm

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:04:00 +0300 Jussi Peltola pe...@pelzi.net wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:23:59AM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: On 4/7/2009 9:08 AM, Declan Ingram wrote: How does that help if you're encrypting the connection to the ExpEther server/device? I mostly trust that

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:48:52 -0500 Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: The design involves a technology called Express Ether though it is typically written as ExpEther, and it is basically a way to run a PCIe bus over ethernet. Though this might be the first you've heard of it,

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net wrote: I mostly trust that nobody is sniffing my PCI bus, I'm less trusting when data goes over the network. You can use a dedicated network.

Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:52:28 -0500 Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: That said I can guarantee that the OpenBSD project pays more attention to its users then other OS'. This does not mean that the users get to set the road-map. When an idea is not good the author is told so, usually,

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-06 Thread SJP Lists
2009/4/7 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org: The design involves a technology called Express Ether though it is typically written as ExpEther, and it is basically a way to run a PCIe bus over ethernet. Though this might be the first you've heard of it, ExpEther has been in development at