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From: coderman <coderman@charter.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VIA on-chip RNG and crypto...
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:13:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD54BCE.7060804@charter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD50CD6.3070808@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> VIA has publicly posted the docs for the 'xstore' and 'xcrypt' 
> instructions in their processors:
>
>     http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp
> ...
> They have also supported open source by providing docs and 
> occasionally hardware to myself, Dave Jones, Alan, and others.  So, 
> while it might appear this is a shameless plug :) I just really like 
> the technology, and am never shy about promoting good hardware 
> designs, and vendors that work with the open source community.

Same here, this crypto stuff rocks!

I posted a document and some sources for using the high throughput
entropy source on linux (2.4.23 and 2.4.6test9) here:

    http://peertech.org/hardware/viarng/

The stock hw_random.c needs a few tweaks to support 8 byte xstore,
and I wrote a new userspace entropy daemon to support low latency,
high volume throughput.  I should clean the code up so it is usable...

Best regards,


      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-08 23:44 VIA on-chip RNG and crypto Jeff Garzik
2003-12-09  3:58 ` Nuno Silva
2003-12-09  4:13 ` coderman [this message]

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