[Openswan Users] Hardware encryption support - VIA PadLock?

[Ken Bantoft]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Nate Carlson wrote:

> Looks like the new VIA PadLock processors support offloading of AES 
> encryption, and there are already patches to CryptoAPI to support it:
> 
> http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/
> 
> If I'm thinking correctly, the versions of Openswan that use CryptoAPI for
> AES should automatically benefit from this. Is that true? If so, anyone
> done any performance tests with this yet?

On 2.6, if it's supported via the CryptoAPI in the kernel then it 
should work transparently.  For 2.4, might be a different story, but won't 
know until someone has one running.

> At $41 for a 1ghz unit that should support the encryption features, that's
> a really sweet deal, if it actually performs.

Someone send me one :)

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