On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Mark Post wrote:
On 1/13/2009 at 1:00 PM, "David L. Craig" <d...@radix.net> wrote:
I curate a museum which includes a uni-CP Multiprise 3000
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Do current distros still support this
platform or will I need something older, and if so, will
current encryption software work on the older distro?
SLES10 and RHEL5 are 64-bit only. Previous versions are 31-bit or
64-bit. The non-commercial distributions, Debian/390, Slack/390,
CentOS are mostly 31-bit. So far as I know, they all include GPG
and OpenSSL.
Yeah. How acceptable this will be depends, really, on the bandwidth
you need encrypted, because doing crypto on a multiprise is pretty
slow. Something that we've had success with (depending on your
requirements) is to use an outboard x86 box, a private network, and
some iptables magic to make it transparent to everything else on the
network but do your crypto where it's cheap.
There are, of course, organizations that will provide support for non-
major distributions, and at least one that really, really likes
Debian. Ask me offline.
Adam
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