VIA C3 AES code ?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Aug 9 10:56:48 PDT 2004


At 01:38 PM 09/08/2004, Mark Murray wrote:
>Eric Anderson writes:
> > Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Has anyone looked at making use of Via's ACE/AES encryption on FreeBSD
> > > ? (e.g. http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/padlock.jsp).  OpenBSD has some
> > > patches to OpenSSL that will make use of the CPU's extra features. I
> > > think they make use of it as well for their IPSEC.
> >
> > I think Mark Murray was working on getting it into -current.  I think it
> > is either there already, or should be there by 5.3.  He has more details
> > I'm sure..
>
>Yup. It will be in 5.3. :-)


Neato!  Is this more than just the HRNG support ? ie will there be support 
for  crypto offloading in OpenSSL or more ?  How far along are you in it ?

         ---Mike 



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