On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:29:54 +0100 (BST)
Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk> wrote:

> Are there any plans to support VIA Padlock hardware AES acceleration?
> 
> The only thing I found in the mailing list archives was the following 
> (which is the RNG portion only):
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2004/08/09/0000.html
> 
> This would be useful for things like cgd and decryption of encrypted
> compressed vnds (discussed elsewhere).
> 
> I'd be interesting in sponsoring the development of support for this, if 
> it looks like it'll provide good results.

I think openbsd has support for this, maybe it's not very hard to port.