recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator

[Charles Swiger]

On Apr 8, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> The hifn driver registers itself to accelerate DES, Triple-DES, AES 
> (7955
>      and 7956 only), ARC4, MD5, MD5-HMAC, SHA1, and SHA1-HMAC 
> operations for
>
> And even then, openssl is not necessarily tied to the card's 
> functions.  For sure des and aes do work, but in my limited tests 
> against a server with apache-ssl installed, it doesnt seem to make use 
> of the card.

I can second/confirm Mike's observations here.

I've got a pair of HI/FN 7951 cards which gets used by SSH if I select 
3DES, but there is no sign that Apache attempts to use it for either 
the public-key RSA/DSA crypto during HTTPS session startup, nor later 
for the symmetric crypto.

-- 
-Chuck