Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > yup, exactly. to me it seems to be a major problem to get some unified
> > api out of openssl adressing fucnctions on the hardware -- i simply do
> > not know how other crypto chipsets do it, i just investigated the
> > rainbow board. they got a patch against openssl 0.9.5 i think, that
> > glues in the driver calls instead of standard lib functions.
> 
> Can you dig out this patch for me?  It would be a big win if the
> userland interface to Soren's hardware were compatible with Rainbow's
> driver.

I believe there is support in OpenSSL for this now (though not in the
version we currently have imported; it's the OpenSSL-engine branch
which supports hardware offload).  Once there's a point to do so
(e.g. whatever relevant kernel support), I can import this into
FreeBSD.

Kris

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