Crypto on motherboard
Alexander Motin
mav at mavhome.dp.ua
Sun May 18 19:37:51 UTC 2008
Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote:
> After I loaded a driver (ubsec), I saw this line in the log:
>
> cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
>
> Is it something I can take advantage of?
This is software cryptography pseudo-driver working without any real
hardware acceleration. It is used by IPSec, geli and some other
subsystems when there is no any hardware cryptography accelerator
present in system.
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Alexander Motin
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