[SunRescue] IPSec and HW crypto acceleration

Wed Jan 31 12:02:20 CST 2001

These guys are up to something novel that might interest you.  They use RAM
slots vice PCI/SBus...

http://www.nuron.com/pdf/encrypt.pdf

DG

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Mosiejczuk [mailto:kurt at csh.rit.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:17 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunRescue] IPSec and HW crypto acceleration

This is something I'm curious about.  Sparcs aren't known for their blazing
performance on crypto algorithms.  I know the PCI based machines have a
crypto accelerator available for this very reason...

Are there any accelerators out there that work with the SBUS machines?
Ideally SBus, but I suppose SCSI connected or something else would be
good...

I just started thinking about it because a friend and I were discussing
setting up a VPN between our OpenBSD firewalls, and my IPC probably would
make sneakernet seem like a viable option =)

--Kurt

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