cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 src/sys/dev/glxsb glxsb.c glxsb.h glxsb_hash.c src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/modules/glxsb Makefile

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Sat Aug 9 18:08:25 UTC 2008


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200808091453.m79ErIuP092318 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Philip Paeps writ
> es:
>   
>> philip      2008-08-09 14:52:31 UTC
>>
>>     
>
>   
>>  Add glxsb(4) driver for the Security Block in AMD Geode LX processors (as
>>  found in Soekris hardware, for instance).  The hardware supports acceleration
>>  of AES-128-CBC accessible through crypto(4) and supplies entropy to random(4).
>>  
>>  TODO:
>>  
>>      o Implement rndtest(4) support
>>     
>
> Just for the record:  I think it is important that we have a test-program
> that checks that these hardware assisted crypto algorithms actually
> do the right thing.
>
> I would really hate if people found out that they had been using
> the ROT52 algorithm due to some silly bug we don't notice along the
> way.
>
> It doesn't have to be very advanced, just run a couple of the standard
> test-vectors to see that the result is correct.
>
>   
tools/tools/crypto/cryptotest is kinda setup to do that.  No test 
vectors though.

    Sam



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