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RE: SSL accel cards

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Goodale)
Tue May 25 16:45:28 2004

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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:34:51 -0700
From: "Grant Goodale" <grant@reactivity.com>
To: "Jack Lloyd" <lloyd@randombit.net>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>

	We've had great luck with the nFast and nForce lines of ssl
accelerators from nCipher under Red Hat:

	http://www.ncipher.com

	Depending on which model you choose, you can get anywhere from
150 to 1600 key ops/sec. =20

	HTH,

	G
--------------
Grant Goodale
Security Architect
Reactivity, Inc.
grant@reactivity.com
http://www.reactivity.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Lloyd [mailto:lloyd@randombit.net]=20
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 10:34 AM
> To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
> Subject: SSL accel cards
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> Does anyone know of an SSL acceleration card that actually=20
> works under Linux/*BSD? I've been looking at vendor web pages=20
> (AEP, Rainbow, etc), and while they all claim to support=20
> Linux, Googling around all I find are people saying "Where=20
> 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=20
> system), and certainly they don't (gasp) make updated=20
> versions available for download. Because someone might...=20
> what, steal the driver? Anyway...
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> What I'm specifically looking for is a PCI card that can do=20
> fast modexp, and that I can program against on a Linux/*BSD=20
> box. Onboard DES/AES/SHA-1/whatever would be fun to play with=20
> but not extremely important.
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> -Jack
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