Re: What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-02 Thread Joe
On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Khalid Schofield wrote: very interesting reply. I look forward to reading it in more depth (just got out of bed to check if I have replys) really I'm after using openbsd to make a vpn concentrator so the traffic will be high. On 2 Apr 2008, at 02:21, Girish V

Re: What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-02 Thread Claer
On Tue, Apr 01 2008 at 00:15, Khalid Schofield wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering what is the best crypto card to buy to use with openbsd to do > AES and blowfish and the SSL encryption. The question you should ask yourself is "Do you need an accelerated SSL card?" As showed in http://marc.info/?l=open

Re: What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-01 Thread Khalid Schofield
very interesting reply. I look forward to reading it in more depth (just got out of bed to check if I have replys) really I'm after using openbsd to make a vpn concentrator so the traffic will be high. On 2 Apr 2008, at 02:21, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 23:05:06 Apr 01, Christian Wei

Re: What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:05:06 Apr 01, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > It mentions AES but not blowfish. Which means you are not losing anything. > There isn't any crypto accelerator that implements Blowfish. > Perhaps with reason. > Blowfish's interest is limited nowadays. It was attractive back > when the top

Re: What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-01 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Khalid Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering what is the best crypto card to buy to use with openbsd to > do AES and blowfish and the SSL encryption. > > Is this the best buy? http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm It's the only one readily available in the retail market. (If I'm mis

Re: What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-01 Thread Sean Cody
In my experience I would say not to bother with one unless you intend on doing high throughput SSL. I've had nothing but issues using them on Soekris gear (but that was many releases ago). As for no blowfish, well that is a blessing as when the card locks up and is very far away (like in an

What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-01 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I'm wondering what is the best crypto card to buy to use with openbsd to do AES and blowfish and the SSL encryption. Is this the best buy? http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm It mentions AES but not blowfish. thanks khalid