Re: MIPS based routerboard machines

[Bhima Pandava]

Do you have a board in mind?

I might be interested in contributing towards the incentive...

Bhima

On 11/15/06, Matt Radtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Good afternoon all

 Is there any interest in supporting the MIPS based
 routerboard hardware?  If there is, I would be happy
 to buy a board or two and throw it at whoever might
 interested in making such a thing happen.

 Past that, I lack the required skills to code it
 myself.  I'd be willing to just generally throw some
 money at someone if it would help.  Just please be
 gentle on my wallet, I have a wedding to pay for ;-)

 Thanks guys

 -Matt




 
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Status of hardware encryption accelerators

[Bhima Pandava]

I know this had been asked before but I did not see an answer nor did
I see an update on the relate OpenBSD web pages.

What is the status of hardware encryption accelerators?

I too have read the web pages and frankly they sound outdated or at
best old.  I have the impression that some years ago there was a big
push to include support for these devices and encryption in general
and once completed not much else has been done.

Is this the case?


Thanks
Bhima

Re: Status of hardware encryption accelerators

[Bhima Pandava]

Interesting.

I had assumed that hardware accelerators kept more or less the same
pace of improvement as general purpose CPUs.  Can you point to any
literature that shows that it doesn't?

On 11/4/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:34:45PM +0100, Bhima Pandava wrote:
 I know this had been asked before but I did not see an answer nor did
 I see an update on the relate OpenBSD web pages.

 What is the status of hardware encryption accelerators?

 I too have read the web pages and frankly they sound outdated or at
 best old.  I have the impression that some years ago there was a big
 push to include support for these devices and encryption in general
 and once completed not much else has been done.

 Is this the case?

I'm not using any crypto hardware but I'm mildly interested, so I've
read the messages over time.

For desktop/server use, hardware acceleration for crypto seems
increasingly irrelevant as processors become faster. Yawn.

For appliances such as soekris, WRAP, et al, crypto in hardware can
still be quite important. There seems to be some discussions on the
soekris community lists. I see the occasional post here about someone
trying to make sure their accelerator is being used in OpenBSD (if it's
detected then it'll get used).

If you have questions about a specific platform or application you'll
probably get more responses from people.

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