[Openswan Users] Openswan Pluto validation

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Mon Nov 12 10:32:03 EST 2007


On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Bubble Reading wrote:

> Is there some information on how we can use Pluto (IKE) to communicate
> directly with OCF without the use of KLIPS ?

I believe (but i am not sure) that openswan-3.x can do some of that. It is
just slower then doing it ourselves on the hardware we tested.
There is a big difference in symmetric key encryption/decryption offloading,
and offloading DiffieHellman (bignum) operations to hardware.

Paul

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