RB wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 23:50, Ancoron Luciferis <[email protected]> > wrote: > <snip> > >> Do you have or know of any Java Cryptography Architecture Provider that >> I can use to make our applications benefit from such an accelerator? >> > > I'm unfamiliar with the particular framework (not a Java programmer), > but the general usage concept is that the HiFN chipset is primarily > controlled by a kernel-level driver that provides base cryptographic > APIs. In turn, those APIs are exercised by userspace subsystems like > OpenSSL or kernel-internally by the kernel's general cryptographic > framework. Hence, you should be looking for a provider that does one > of the following: > a) uses OpenSSL (most likely) > b) supports your particular OS' cryptographic API which would in turn > need to support acceleration by the HiFN driver > c) directly supports the API provided by your OS' HiFN driver (least likely) > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > Thanks for that info. I knew that there is a KCF in Solaris but wasn't aware that the same thing is also present in other OS's. So then I think I just need a provider for the OS.
Just another question I stumbled upon while reviewing some of our docs here: Is the vpnxxxx capable of accelerating the original Rijndael with a block size of 256 bit (AES is only specified with 128 bit block size)? I see that we are using this very often in our code and accelerating that would give us the most speed-up. SHA-256 would also be nice but that isn't a major issue regarding to CPU time. The Rijndael 256/256 is the one that causes most CPU time at some of out applications here. Regards, Ancoron _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
