So it looks like SuSE has a openssl-z990 rpm.  So then it would be a matter
of getting OpenSSH to work with that?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Boyes
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] CVS

> So this is the kind of thing I could point at a crypto engine if I had
> one?

If, if, if....

IF you had a crypto engine, and IF you had the OpenSSL package compiled with
the IBM modifications to enable the Cryptoki crypto interface to the crypto
engine, and IF you had OpenSSH recompiled to use the modified OpenSSL
libraries, and IF all this didn't do harm to your support agreement, then
you could probably get some benefit.

Right now, all the ssh crypto is done in software, and CVS does a lot of
connection setup and teardown which is where the asymmetric crypto (the
really expensive part of the crypto exchange) gets done. Use of the routines
in Cryptoki would help, but as you can see from above, it's not gonna be
simple.

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