Hi,
As a part of my master's thesis, there is now available two new engines to OpenSSL - they are created to use GPU as coprocessor. At the moment, there is only AES128 ECB encryption implemented, but that's enough to see and understand how to use GPUs in such area.
6800 : uses OpenGL and Cg language, can be used with cards supported by OpenGL and in systems where OpenGL is suported. Data is sent to GPU and back to CPU as textures. Problem is that X (or other graphic environment) must be running.
8800 : uses CUDA (released by NVIDIA in march 2007) to communicate with GPU. No need for X, but needs at least NVIDIA 8* chip.
Results- NVIDIA 6800GT was slower than CPU (Intel P4 640 3.2GHz) NVIDIA 8800GTS was 1..3% faster than CPU Code and thesis is available at http://math.ut.ee/~uraes/openssl-gpu/ Urmas Rosenberg University of Tartu ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
