Re: Hardware acceleration using VIA Padlock (was Re: a couple of questions)

Den 24. jun 2004, kl. 4:48, skrev Eric E. Bowles:

> Hi there,
>
> I found a page describing how to use the VIA Padlock ACE (AES 
> encryption
> in hardware) on recent Nehemiah processors.
>
> http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/#openssl

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> I didn't find any calls to the ENGINE_* functions in the OpenVPN 
> source,
> so I suspect that you'd need to add these two calls somewhere.

i thought that openvpn used openvpn to do all the encryption?


> It would be nice if somebody who has one of these units could benchmark
> its performance with OpenVPN.

look back at the list one, maybe 2 weeks.
Some guy had support for this in openssl, and ... it was impressive.



JonB



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