Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:15:01 -0400 | From | "Professor Moriarty" <> | Subject | Re: Crypto Hardware Accelerator |
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> Hello everyone, > I am looking for a crypto hardware accelerator which is available in the > EU in form of a PCI card which is supported by the linux kernel to do a > device mapper crypt setup using aes256. It would be also nice if it > could also be used by openssl userland applications. Also I would like > to know if there are some plans to support IDE drives which do AES > transparently for the OS. Like an ATA Command which tells the drive > which AES key to use during startup. An the rest does the device instead > of the hostos/cpu. > > Thomas Hello Thomas,
You might have a look at the Soekris vpn1401 card, (technical specs here: http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm). It is available in the EU and can do AES256 without a problem. It does have linux support, though I'm not sure if it can be used by OpenSSL applications. Typically, you'd have to have the crypto accelerator take over API calls to en/decrypt for OpenSSL (A crypto accelerator is basically an FPGA with the required algos coded in), so I'm not too sure if it is possible to do this without actually editing OpenSSL's code directly
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