SSL accel cards

[Markus Lorch]

Jack,

I've played around with the IBM 2058 eServer Cryptographic Accelerator
using it on Linux 2.4 with an OpenSSL engine supplied by IBM as an
open source project
see http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/icadd/index.html
and http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/libica

It has 5 UltraCypher processors on board and the OpenSSL
speed command reports up to 60 times as many RSA operations/sec
than the OpenSSL software only implementation on an Intel Xeon 2.4GHz
 
Hope this helps

Markus

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Markus Lorch
Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com 
> [mailto:owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com] On Behalf Of Jack Lloyd
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:34 PM
> To: cryptography at metzdowd.com
> Subject: SSL accel cards
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of an SSL acceleration card that actually 
> works under Linux/*BSD? I've been looking at vendor web pages 
> (AEP, Rainbow, etc), and while they all claim to support 
> Linux, Googling around all I find are people saying "Where 
> can I get drivers? The ones <vendor> shipped only work on 
> RedHat 5.2 with a 2.0.36 kernel." (or some similar 4-6 year 
> old system), and certainly they don't (gasp) make updated 
> versions available for download. Because someone might... 
> what, steal the driver? Anyway...
> 
> What I'm specifically looking for is a PCI card that can do 
> fast modexp, and that I can program against on a Linux/*BSD 
> box. Onboard DES/AES/SHA-1/whatever would be fun to play with 
> but not extremely important.
> 
> -Jack
> 
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