Re: SSL Accelerator cards

From: Matthias Andree (ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 01:35:57 EST


* Michael T. Babcock (mikebabcock@pobox.com) [000412 02:48]:
> Is anyone working on support for crypto-accelerator cards such as the
> Compaq AXL 200 SSL card?
> <http://www.tandem.com/quickspecs/axl200qs/axl200qs.htm>
>
> I realise that true support for such beasts would need to be done within
> the software (such as Apache), but cryptographic module hooks in the
> kernel (as NT now does) would probably be useful for plugging drivers
> into.

Why would that need to be in kernel-space? User-space (i. e.
interfacing OpenSSL) would be just as fine, would not it?

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