Porting OBSD's Crypto Hardware Support To FreeBSD

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."

Comments

Cool...

[Slipped_Disk]

This would be something I would be interested in testing (if only I could get my hands on the hardware...)

I suppose I'll just have to admire from afar and drool over the cool technology that now works on my operating system (even though I can't think of any uses I personally would have for it, though I'm sure somebody can...)

Wonder how long this will take to make it into Darwin? Wonder if anyone even makes crypto hardware for apples for that matter...