Hi,
Since we are on the subject of hardware enhanced cryptography, does the
HiFn chips used in the Soekris devices, have support in openssl?.
Regards
Nige
Kyle Hamilton wrote:
OpenSSL uses the operating system to get entropy. If AMD wants Linux
to support its on-chip random number generator, it needs to write a
driver that replaces /dev/random and /dev/urandom.
In addition, Intel has been playing nice and getting its code in the
openssl distribution, as a set of patches that were integrated not too
long ago. Nobody has submitted such a patch for the Geode to my
knowledge (I'm not god of the request tracker, but most mails sent to
[email protected] are forwarded to the -dev list; I've not seen any
patches come in). (i.e.: Intel is doing strategic positioning that
AMD is not.)
-Kyle H
On Sep 27, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Jelle de Jong wrote:
Hello everybody,
The AMD Geode LX800 CPU has an on-chip AES 128-bit crypto
accelerations block and a true random number generator, but OpenSSL
is not using it.
Please see the below link for test reports and openssl outputs
http://debian.pastebin.com/faeff2a3
Is there anybody that know what is going on here?
Thanks in advance,
Jelle
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