Re: Re: Centos 4.x and embeded x86 (wrap, pcengines)

[Daniel de Kok <daniel-lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:15:49 +0100
David Hrbác( <hrbac.conf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Padlock support is not backported into Centos, nor upstream.

Thanks for the heads-up!

> 2.6.11 kernel it has been accepted into the source tree (only AES), so
> we can expect it in RHEL/Centos5?!? For SHA1 and SHA256 every kernel
> must be patched.

$ rpm2cpio kernel-2.6.18-1.2747.el5.i686.rpm | cpio -t | grep 'padlock'
./lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock.ko

Looking at the symbols this seems to implement AES offloading.

> Interesting reading http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/article.xp/padlock-en

Very interesting indeed.

-- Daniel
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