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RE: SSL accel cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Markus Lorch)
Tue May 25 16:23:00 2004
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From: "Markus Lorch" <mlorch@vt.edu>
To: "'Jack Lloyd'" <lloyd@randombit.net>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:16:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20040523173429.GB1894@acm.jhu.edu>
Jack,
I've played around with the IBM 2058 eServer Cryptographic Accelerator
using it on Linux 2.4 with an OpenSSL engine supplied by IBM as an
open source project
see http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/icadd/index.html
and http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/libica
It has 5 UltraCypher processors on board and the OpenSSL
speed command reports up to 60 times as many RSA operations/sec
than the OpenSSL software only implementation on an Intel Xeon 2.4GHz
Hope this helps
Markus
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Markus Lorch
Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-cryptography@metzdowd.com] On Behalf Of Jack Lloyd
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:34 PM
> To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
> Subject: SSL accel cards
>
>
>
> Does anyone know of an SSL acceleration card that actually
> works under Linux/*BSD? I've been looking at vendor web pages
> (AEP, Rainbow, etc), and while they all claim to support
> Linux, Googling around all I find are people saying "Where
> can I get drivers? The ones <vendor> shipped only work on
> RedHat 5.2 with a 2.0.36 kernel." (or some similar 4-6 year
> old system), and certainly they don't (gasp) make updated
> versions available for download. Because someone might...
> what, steal the driver? Anyway...
>
> What I'm specifically looking for is a PCI card that can do
> fast modexp, and that I can program against on a Linux/*BSD
> box. Onboard DES/AES/SHA-1/whatever would be fun to play with
> but not extremely important.
>
> -Jack
>
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