Re: Hardware crypto support
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: Nik Clayton wrote: Does FreeBSD support hardware crypto? It does. There'll shortly be a story on /. about OpenBSD's hardware crypto support, in the form of the HiFn 7751 chip. OpenBSD recommend buying them from www.powercrypt.com. Also, don't forget that nCipher is still running Hotmail's SSL stuff under FreeBSD. It has been doing so since at least before August 1999. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Hardware crypto support
Similarly, what about hardware compression support? Say in conjunction with the LanMedia 1504P 4-port T1/E1 card? Len Does FreeBSD support hardware crypto? We've issued a device major number for nCipher's nFast PCI hardware cryptographic accelerator. I'd suggest contacting the nCipher guy who asked for the device major, John Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask how they're progressing. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
RE: Hardware crypto support
Speaking of hardware support for compression... I've been looking for hardware accelerated zlib for a while. I even contacted the guys zlib developers and Hi/fn and came up with nothing. Any suggestions? Charles -Original Message- From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 4:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware crypto support Similarly, what about hardware compression support? Say in conjunction with the LanMedia 1504P 4-port T1/E1 card? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Hardware crypto support
Nik Clayton wrote: Does FreeBSD support hardware crypto? It does. There'll shortly be a story on /. about OpenBSD's hardware crypto support, in the form of the HiFn 7751 chip. OpenBSD recommend buying them from www.powercrypt.com. If you go there you'll see that FreeBSD support is listed, but there are no details. If FreeBSD's got support for this card (even if it's through third party drivers) I'll recast the story so it's more of a "BSD supports hardware crypto", rather than being solely OpenBSD. But if OpenBSD have it first they get the honours :-) If you're using this (or any other) card for hardware crypto, can you drop me a line? If you can include real-world performance details as well that'd be great. I once wrote a driver for a cryptography card for FreeBSD. The hardware was a brazilian one, and the driver was/is being used with a commercial firewall product that is available for a number of platforms, including FreeBSD. I wouldn't be the least surprised if other crypto hardware had drivers available for FreeBSD. Frankly, I see nothing special in the above. It sure didn't took me very long to write the driver. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
