Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-12-15, Martin Kjær Jørgensen m...@gotu.dk wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Hi misc Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card like hifn when

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: Do you think an AMD Elan 133 Mhz is modern enough for at 54/mbit wireless WPA2 throughput? No but neither will it be quick enough that pumping the data to a PCI-based crypto accelerator is going to work well. Indeed. Also, we don't support

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-16 Thread Martin Kjær Jørgensen
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 06:24:38PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:00:07PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/15/12 11:45, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Do you think an AMD Elan 133 Mhz is modern enough for at 54/mbit wireless WPA2 throughput? Are you kidding

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-16 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 01:52:10PM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Sounds like OpenBSD is not quite ready for being a production Access Point. Well, that depends on your needs. But yes, alternatives like OpenWRT are tuned better for use as a speedy access point and run on smaller devices

Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Martin Kjær Jørgensen
Hi misc Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card like hifn when using WPA/WPA2 as encryption? /Martin

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Hi misc Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card like hifn when using WPA/WPA2 as encryption? From a quick look through the kernel: No, net80211 does not use the crypto framework, therefore

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Martin Kjær Jørgensen
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Hi misc Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card like hifn when using WPA/WPA2 as encryption? From a quick look through

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/15/12 11:45, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Hi misc Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card like hifn when using

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:00:07PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/15/12 11:45, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Do you think an AMD Elan 133 Mhz is modern enough for at 54/mbit wireless WPA2 throughput? Are you kidding me? That's about as non-modern as OpenBSD/i386 supports. Seriously.

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 05:46:19PM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Hi misc Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Martin Kjær Jørgensen m...@gotu.dk wrote: Do you think an AMD Elan 133 Mhz is modern enough for at 54/mbit wireless WPA2 throughput? WPA2, that's what? AES-CCM? A 1 GHz Atom as in the Soekris net6501-50 should be able to do it. (My net6501-70, the 1.6 GHz model, is about 80% busy saturating