SSL accel cards

Grant Goodale grant at reactivity.com
Tue May 25 16:34:51 EDT 2004


	We've had great luck with the nFast and nForce lines of ssl
accelerators from nCipher under Red Hat:

	http://www.ncipher.com

	Depending on which model you choose, you can get anywhere from
150 to 1600 key ops/sec.  

	HTH,

	G
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Grant Goodale
Security Architect
Reactivity, Inc.
grant at reactivity.com
http://www.reactivity.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Lloyd [mailto:lloyd at randombit.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 10:34 AM
> 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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