On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:02:36 +0000 (UTC)
John Case <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> There are a number of hardware solutions for performing AES-CTR in 
> hardware - for example the broadcom BCM5825, which is supported by
> the ubsec driver.
> 
> The problem is that OpenSSL does not currently support hardware 
> acceleration of AES-CTR.  The solution on a Sun system is to use the
> Sun crypto framework APIs (PKCS#11) which does support AES-CTR in
> hardware.
> 
> Is there an analagous API in FreeBSD that I could implement in my
> code so as to use the hardware AES-CTR of devices supported by ubsec ?

Aside from  crypto(3) (OpenSSL), there's also crypto(9) (kernel) and
crypto(4) (userland), but they don't appear to support CTR - just CBC.

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