[Openswan Users] Hardware encryption support - VIA PadLock?

[Michal Ludvig]

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

While buying this take care to get the Nehemiah CPU with stepping 8 or
higher! The older ones don't have the AES encryption module in the PadLock
core.

Michal Ludvig
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