Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost> writes: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:07:23 -0700 > buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow) wrote: > >> hello. Can anyone enlighten me as to the advantages or disadvantages >> of using the /dev/crypto device versus having applications do their own >> cryptography? Is it more efficient to have the kernel do the >> crypto work than the applications themselves? > > I'm not sure how well it works, but openssl supports a "speed" > benchmark program, supporting the -engine <engine> <algorithm> options, > and the "engine" command should list the engines it supports (including > cryptodev, aesni, etc) It does seem to work. My notes from trying to figure this out on a net5501: http://www.lexort.com/blog/net5501.html#sec-5_2 (For those reading further down, I find that mounting the 2T disk w/o rump and w/o wapbl and not using either coprocessor results in a stable system).
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