On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Andy Polyakov wrote: > On which OS? On Linux for example VIA RNG can be accessed through > /dev/hwrandom, but not through /dev/random. At least it was the case
It's /dev/hw_random on my Ubuntu machine (and it doesn't have VIA's RNG patch, so it can "only" generate entropy at a rate of about 4 kBytes/s. (With patch it's supposed to be over a MByte/s). > last time I checked... > > >As for AES and DSA acceleration via padlock extensions, I do not know > >if these are supported directly within openssl. Does anyone else know > >such details? > > 0.9.8 supports AES since August, RNG support is planned. 0.9.7 patches > can be found at original contributor's site, > http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/. As for SHA and Montgomery Thanks for the link! > multiplication, it's total news [to me] and we have to wait and see... A. Esther (C7) isn't due for 2005 (possibly, late 2005), so that's purely academical for time being. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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