On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-05-20, Joco Salvatti <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi misc, >> >> I bought a Soekris Net5501 with a cryptographic card VPN1411 >> (Authentication, SHA-1 and MD5, Public Key, RSA, DSA, SSL, IKE and DH, >> Hardware random number generator) and I would like to know if any >> configuration is needed in OpenBSD kernel to use this card when >> cryptography is necessary. >> >> eg. When a VPN IPSec is done. > > You might want to check that it's not actually slower when you use the card. > >
Some basic benchmarking would be appreciated, for the sake of the list. As a newcomer I am really interested in understanding the cryptohardware framework. I would have never said accelerated hardware could perform any worse. Interesting point Stuart.
