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From: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	cryptoapi-devel <cryptoapi-devel@kerneli.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Hardware support notes for the kernel crypto API (2.5+)
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:28:12 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9000000.1039901292@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0212150025190.24712-100000@blackbird.intercode.com.au>

>  - What will the Kernel & Userspace APIs look like?

A socket family?  Most userspace crypto apps, IMO, will deal with 
networking somewhere.

>   - Asymmetric crypto?

Yes please!  A HiFn 6500 can do a 2048-bit DH exchange in about 30ms, 
compared with several seconds for a P3-900.  It's similarly fast for 
everything else, and utterly astonishing for RSA (under a millisecond for a 
signature!).

>  Intel
>    Crypto documentation for NICs unavailable.

I may have some leverage here.  We'll see.

>   Broadcom
>     No response to emails.

But OpenBSD has drivers, and they say that Broadcom were very good to deal 
with.  I suggest writing the OpenBSD driver maintainer and asking who to 
contact.

Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-14 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0212150025190.24712-100000@blackbird.intercode.co m.au>
2002-12-14 13:51 ` [RFC] Hardware support notes for the kernel crypto API (2.5+) James Morris
2002-12-14 21:28   ` Andrew McGregor [this message]
2002-12-15  1:15     ` James Morris
2002-12-15  4:34       ` [CryptoAPI-devel] " Justin Clift
2002-12-17 16:54         ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2002-12-17  0:15   ` [CryptoAPI-devel] " Steve Isaacs
2002-12-17  0:56   ` Steve Isaacs

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