Jivin Nawang Chhetan lays it down ... > Hi David, > Thanks for the reply. Since there is no proper API > documentation for the OCF-Linux, can we refer to original OpenBsd > Cryptographic Documentaton . Like the one in the following link: > > http://www.digipedia.pl/man/crypto.9.html > > > I just cross checked few API's and realized they are almost the same. They are the same :-) Its a linux port of the FreeBSD version of the OpenBSD crypto API. Have you looked at: http://www.thought.net/jason/ocfpaper/ http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/leffler_crypto/leffler_crypto.pdf All available from the links page on: http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/links.html Cheers, Davidm > On 7/18/07, David McCullough <David_Mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Jivin Nawang Chhetan lays it down ... > >> Hi David, > >> Thanks for the reply. I have been using the SafeXcel 1141 card on > >> x86 platform. Need to investigate this further as suggested by you. > > > >Make sure you have the latest safenet driver from the 2007 tarball, > >there are some bus width fixes in there IIRC for all the PCI drivers. > > > >Other than that, it's debug time. > > > >> I have a question, I have noticed that list of hardware accelerators > >> are supported with OCF-Linux is a bit unclear, even though these > >> hardware accelerators are mentioned clearly: > >> > >> 1. Hifn-7751 > > > >hifn 7751, 7956 > > > >safenet 1141, 1741 > > > >Intel IXP (465 425 and 422) > > > >Freescale SEC (talitos) > > > >There is also a Via padlock driver in freebsd that would be trivial to > >port. > > > >Software (using linux kernel crypto API, which may also use hardware :-) > > > >> Is this the exhaustive list ? > > > >The list above is, > > > >Cheers, > >Davidm > > > >> On 7/17/07, David McCullough <David_Mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >wrote: > >> > > >> >Jivin Nawang Chhetan lays it down ... > >> >> Hi All, > >> >> > >> >> I am trying to integrate OCF-linux with Quicksec on linux 2.6 kernels. > >> >> Many versions of OCF-Linux have been released but wtihout clear > >> >> demarcation of 2.6 kernel versions they support. All they mention is > >> >> support for kernel verison 2.6.11 and later and the README within the > >> >> distributions states it can be easily modified to support recent > >> >> version of kernels( which is true, I did it for 2.6.17.7 ) > >> >> My Question here is that: > >> >> Is there any good OCF-Linux documentation available ? > >> > > >> >Only whats on the website. Your best bet is to ask. > >> >The current releases work for kernels up to 2.6.18 without > >> >any major issues. I should be doing a release this week with > >> >everything up to 2.6.22 supported fully. Just finishing off the > >> >testing. > >> > > >> >> What is/are the version of 2.6 kernel, the OCF-Linux is most > >> >> stable/tested/developed for ? > >> >> Further I tried to use SafeXcel-1141 hardware accelerator ( which is > >> >> claimed to be supported) with OCF-Linux, but inserting the module > >> >> safe.ko (after ocf.ko and cryptodev.ko ) hangs the machine (Kernel > >> >> version 2.6.17.6 .). > >> >> Do I need to insmod the SafeXcel-1141 driver too ? > >> > > >> >I have used the safenet driver on SuperH and ARM platforms. It works > >> >fine there. I don't have any way to test it on x86 though. > >> > > >> >It should work fine on 2.6.17, load everything with debug enabled > >> >and see what happens. > >> > > >> >If you are running on an x86_64 system, disable all the code in > >> >"random.c" however, it was broken on 64bits arches in older versions. > >> > > >> >Cheers, > >> >Davidm > >> > > >> >-- > >> >David McCullough, david_mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ph:+61 > >734352815 > >> >Secure Computing - SnapGear http://www.uCdot.org > >http://www.cyberguard.com > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Nawang Chhetan > >> Software Engineer > >> SafeNet India. > >> > > > >-- > >David McCullough, david_mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ph:+61 734352815 > >Secure Computing - SnapGear http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com > > > > > -- > Nawang Chhetan > Software Engineer > SafeNet India. > -- David McCullough, david_mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ph:+61 734352815 Secure Computing - SnapGear http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
