Hardware crypto card wanted

Mark Johnston markj at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 7 22:24:16 UTC 2020


On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:18:02PM -0600, alan somers wrote:
> I'm working on a change to geli, but I need to test it on a system with a
> hardware crypto card.  Not merely one with AES-NI, but one of the old
> fashioned PCI kind that works with crypto(9).  Would anybody who runs
> CURRENT on such a machine be willing to test my patch for me?

I'm finishing work on a new hardware crypto driver and can test if you
like.  Do you want to run the existing GELI tests with the patch
applied, or something else?

I don't quite understand why GELI would care about the distinction,
though.  Doesn't GELI use AES-NI via crypto(9) as well?


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