Valerie Anne Bubb wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> Some of you may know me as the original author of the dca driver >> (pre-Solaris 10, as well as the Solaris 8/9 "kcl" library.) >> >> I'm interested in doing a driver for the Via Padlock hardware. Is >> anyone else working on it? I have some Via hardware handy, so I can >> test, etc. > > Hi Garrett! :-) > > To the best of my knowledge, notbody is working on the Via Padlock > hardware at this time. Have you looked at the Cryptographic Framework > information yet? We really changed crypto in S10 :-) > > Valerie
I worked with the KCF team on some of the design (reviewed documents, etc.) about four years ago before I left Sun. I've not looked at the most recent stuff, but I suspect it is still close (in principle) to what I reviewed so long ago. I'll take a look at the stuff, and the Padlock crypto engine, to see if I can get something started. From my perspective, the first step is getting the RNG plugged in (at the time I last looked, the /dev/random framework was separate from the rest of the crypto stuff), followed by the SHA1 and AES stuff. (I don't know off-hand if SHA2 is supported by Padlock or not. I guess SHA1 is falling into decline now, though.) -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191
