Re: cryptographic acceleration [Re: What's left over.]

From: James Morris (jmorris@intercode.com.au)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 03:10:58 EST


On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Niels Provos wrote:

> On the other hand, there are some Ethernet cards that support inline
> encryption so that not additional bus bandwidth is required to do both
> public and symmetric key cryptography.

And this is precisely the case for which we have no detailed documentation
at this stage. Hardware which does this includes the Intel PRO/100S and
3Com 3CR990.

Any assistance from vendors in getting documentation on the crypto aspects
of cards would be highly appreciated.

- James

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James Morris
<jmorris@intercode.com.au>

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