[Openswan Users] Hardware encryption support - VIA PadLock?

[Trevor Benson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.openswan.org [mailto:users-
> bounces at lists.openswan.org] On Behalf Of Nate Carlson
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:49 PM
> To: users at lists.openswan.org
> Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] Hardware encryption support - VIA
PadLock?
> 
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ken Bantoft wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I've got one on the way; my firewall at home needs an upgrade anyways.
> It'll be interesting to see how it works.
> 
> > > 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 :)
> 
> But all those silly import duties to send stuff to Canada... :)


Anyone have any good suggestions for benchmarking hardware encryption?

Thanks,
Trevor