Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:28:12 +1300 | From | Andrew McGregor <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Hardware support notes for the kernel crypto API (2.5+) |
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> - 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.
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