On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:37 AM John Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have upgraded two physical machines from 11-STABLE to 12-STABLE recently > (one is 12.0-PRERELEASE r341380 and the other is 12.0-PRERELEASE r341391). I > noticed today that neither machine seems to be utilizing /dev/crypto. > Typically I see at least ssh/sshd have the device open plus some programs > from ports. But 'fuser' doesn't list any processes on either machine: > > # fuser /dev/crypto > /dev/crypto: > > Both machines are running custom kernels that include "device crypto" and > "device cryptodev". One of them additionally has "device aesni". > > Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea what would cause it?
Your average OpenSSL applications should not use /dev/crypto, if your goal is to utilize AES-NI (which does not require /dev/crypto). On capable systems, AES-NI would be used automatically (and it's faster this way). Cheers, _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
