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Porting OBSD's Crypto Hardware Support To FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the eyescanning dept.

Dan writes: "Sam Leffler reports in his email to freebsd-arch regarding the status of his progress porting OpenBSD hardware crypto support to FreeBSD. He's had a patch available for freebsd-stable for a while, and has made major progress changing the KAME IPSEC code to use this framework, again in the style done by openbsd (using continuations to break up the input and output packet processing paths). In addition to the IPSEC work he's been talking to various hardware vendors about support for their products in FreeBSD."

4 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cool... by funky+womble · · Score: 2, Informative
    (if only I could get my hands on the hardware...)
    try Soekris...
  2. Hardware crypto support on freebsd ala rainbow by teambpsi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just saw these guys at a government security conference, they were one of the other vendors there.

    They already claim to have support for all the *bsd variants, including freebsd

    Rainbow's CryptoSwift

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  3. Re:open letter from NetBSD by voodoo1man · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmm, could this policy change possibly be because of this?

    I'm surprised there is still so much animosity between Theo and the NetBSD core developers.
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  4. Where to get Crypto Cards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    These Crypto cards can be a bit hard to find..

    Check Point sells a re-badged Broadcom crypto accelerator that would work with these drivers (also has Linux drivers). It is based on the Broadcom 5805 chip. List price is $1K, but it is usually discounted well below that.

    I have heard that they also have a new version of this card coming out based on the Broadcom 5821 chip.