also there is a company called rainbow that makes PCI card based
accelerators. I chose the nCipher SCSI boxes for my setup for maximum
future flexibility.
Warning, don't faint when you see the cost of these products. `get one for
evaluation and check out the performance yourself.
David Lang
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kaur Virunurm wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:36:28 +0300
> From: Kaur Virunurm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: OpenSSL Newbie---help
>
> > I am new to open ssl, and in fact ssl. I am currently exploring the
> > possibility of designing a hardware accelerator for OpenSSL. I have a number
> > of questions:
> >
> > 1) Does anyone know of other hardware accelerators; and if so did they
> > accelerate OpenSSL or some other layer
>
> Look at nCipher crypto accelerators, http://www.ncipher.com/products/index.html.
> They are/were SSLeay compatible (have a development library for SSLeay).
>
> Besides pure *cryption speed-up, hardware modules are also used as
> secure devices for key management. nCipher does that, too, but
> I have no idea if those features that can be used together with OpenSSL
> or not. Anyway, pure acceleration and 'bang-for-the-buck' are certainly
> not the only thing to be considered when designing such hardware.
>
> Kaur
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