> On 10.07.2011 05:20, David Boyes wrote: > > Yes. At the moment, it's not aware of the crypto cards, so it's quite > > expensive in terms of CPU to do it on the Z processor, but it does work. > Do you know, which library is used for encryption? > If Bacula on Z uses openssl, it would be very easy to exploit all > cryptographic > hardware support (SHA, DES, AES, RSA etc.) of System z platform. If you > need more information about hardware crypto support and how you could > exploit it, please feel free to contact me. I can provide you programming > examples, how to use crypto hardware support via openssl as well as using > libica directly.
We did not use openssl because the openssl license terms are incompatible with the one used by Bacula. I'm looking at how to use libica directly, however the license terms may be a problem there too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
