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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:28:12 +1300
From: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Hardware support notes for the kernel crypto API (2.5+)
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>  - What will the Kernel & Userspace APIs look like?

A socket family?  Most userspace crypto apps, IMO, will deal with 
networking somewhere.

>   - Asymmetric crypto?

Yes please!  A HiFn 6500 can do a 2048-bit DH exchange in about 30ms, 
compared with several seconds for a P3-900.  It's similarly fast for 
everything else, and utterly astonishing for RSA (under a millisecond for a 
signature!).

>  Intel
>    Crypto documentation for NICs unavailable.

I may have some leverage here.  We'll see.

>   Broadcom
>     No response to emails.

But OpenBSD has drivers, and they say that Broadcom were very good to deal 
with.  I suggest writing the OpenBSD driver maintainer and asking who to 
contact.

Andrew
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