On Thu, 11 May 2006 23:49:40 +0200 Markus Schuster <ma.schuster@xxxxxx> wrote: Hi guys ! Thanks Ronen for your information, I really didn't know that there's already some support for those different crypto-processors ;) > Ronen Shitrit schrieb: > > There is a patch for using the dm-crypt with acrypto or OCF. > > Both gives support for different HW accelerations. > > Check the attached dm-crypt patch for OCF for kernel 2.6.12. > > This is _very_ interesting! From a first look OCF seems to be designed > for smartcards but acrypto seems to be the right pointer! I guess he doesn't mean the open card framework, but more the Linux port of the OpenBSD/FreeBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF): http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/ > It has support > for the hifn 7955 crypto accelerator chip which is assembled on the > Soekris VPN1401 PCI card. They talk about > 30 MByte/s (250 Mbit/s) > throughput. And this without overloading the CPU... > Has anyone some praxis experience with acrypto and dm-crypt? Stability, > data corruption (:)) and this sort of? There must be a cause it is not > in vanilla kernel. I guess it is just too experimental and/or just not common. Anyway, there should be no problem with giving it a try, at least in read-only mode there should be no way for data corruption. The crypto-chips as well do all the work, IMHO they should be pretty stable. The new soekris VPN cards are even AES capable and only cost as much as EUR 63,- Just f...ing cool, damnit :))) > > Regards, > Markus greets, Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
