On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Ancoron Luciferis <ancoron at chaoslayer.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi *, > > I have a simple question: > > In the near future I am going to buy one of those fantastic little boxes > from Soekris ( http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm ) with an additional > "hardware security accelerator" ( http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm ) > board that can take over the en-/decryption of secured connections using > public key, RSA, DSA, SSL, IKE and DH, authentication, compression, LZS, > MPPC, ... using the crypto engine "Hi/fn 7955" (using > http://sourceforge.net/projects/hifn7951/ experimental driver for linux). > > Would a current freenet client denefit from these hardware accelerations?
Short answer: No. =) Long answer: You need special JCE module (software) installed. (e.g. http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/via-jcp.jsp ) However, the most-used crypto in freenet is Rijndael (original favour, not the NIST one), no module provide this acceleration. SHA-256, while do have some acceleration exist, are used sparsely. > The main question thereof is: Is the encryption/decryption secure > connection handling implemented in pure Java or is it dome using the > native (for Linux/Unix systems shared) libraries? > > And if it is implemented in pure Java wouldn't it give freenet an extra > performance boost when it used native/shared libraries for such a task > that can be compiled with specific processor optimization flags? > > Thanx in advance for any answers. :-) > > > Regards, > > AncoL > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAklAoSwACgkQQvkuA0fAo7kgCwCeLpgxn93VvPLPld5SgpEqQsxq > sCMAoKjlwZRsHSx3MKxJqvXypLrkl9yG > =qpwM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
