Re: cryptographic acceleration [Re: What's left over.]

David Dillow (dillowd@y12.doe.gov)
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 13:01:49 -0500


James Morris wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Niels Provos wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, there are some Ethernet cards that support inline
> > encryption so that not additional bus bandwidth is required to do both
> > public and symmetric key cryptography.
>
> And this is precisely the case for which we have no detailed documentation
> at this stage. Hardware which does this includes the Intel PRO/100S and
> 3Com 3CR990.

Have this for 3cr990, driver coming soon. I have docs under NDA for the crypto
as well, hope to be more active getting that going as soon as I get some more
free time.

D
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