Re: Encryption Accelerators

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

At the moment, we are not aware of any cards on the market yet that do
AES, for which documentation is available.  But AES extended versions
of some hardware we already support is coming soon...

I am not aware of *any* hardware that does blowfish.

> Anyone know of an encryption accelerator that (is supported by OpenBSD
> and) will accelerate Blowfish or AES?  All the ones I've seen only
> support 3DES & DES.
> 
> Of course, hash, DH, etc processing would still be accelerated with most
> cards, just not the encryption itself.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chavous Camp
> 
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