Porting OBSD's Crypto Hardware Support To FreeBSD 24
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."
Cool... (Score:2, Interesting)
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...
Re:Cool... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:open letter from NetBSD (Score:3, Informative)
Hmmm, could this policy change possibly be because of this? [netbsd.org]
I'm surprised there is still so much animosity between Theo and the NetBSD core developers.Hardware crypto support on freebsd ala rainbow (Score:4, Informative)
They already claim to have support for all the *bsd variants, including freebsd
Rainbow's CryptoSwift [rainbow.com]
Where to get Crypto Cards (Score:1, Informative)
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.