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David Boyes wrote:
> On 3/30/09 12:56 PM, "Steve Polyack" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     Has anyone taken a look at including OpenSSL engine(3) support, enabling
>     the use of hardware crypto-accelerators for Bacula's encryption?
> 
>     At the moment it appears the taking large encrypted backups puts a
>     decent amount of load on the CPU.  On production systems in certain
>     environments, this may not be acceptable when backups run for long
>     periods of time.
> 
>     The engines framework in OpenSSL abstracts the hardware devices from
>     OpenSSL via configuration, causing these devices to be used when
>     compatible ciphers are used.  This can be configured in openssl.cnf
>     (provided the application considers this configuration file) or in the
>     application itself.  I've tried including this myself, using a Hifn7955
>     card, without much luck.
> 
>     Does anybody else have any experience implementing this?

> Earlier versions of Bacula used OpenSSL

Bacula still uses OpenSSL.  It never stopped AFAIK.

I think you are referring to some packagers which feared license
incompatibility and thus did not choose the OpenSSL option when
compiling Bacula.

I recall there was an issue, related to licenses, but this has since
been corrected with the soon-to-be-released Bacula 3.0

- From http://marc.info/?l=bacula-devel&m=123833324825601&w=2

"The code in this version of Bacula is now license clean, which means
that there should no longer be any license incompatibilities between the
Bacula code and OpenSSL."

- --
Dan Langille

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