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Re: Crypto hardware with secure key storage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Thornburg)
Mon May 22 19:28:52 2006
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:44:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@aei.mpg.de>
To: John Ioannidis <ji@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@aei.mpg.de>,
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20060519214605.GB746@dynasty.cs.columbia.edu>
On Fri, 19 May 2006, John Ioannidis wrote:
> Speaking of bulk encryption cards... does the linux 2.6 kernel support
> any? There is a reference to a "crypto framework" in the
> configuration menus, but as is typical of linux, there are no man
> pages or other documentation related to it, and I don't feel like
> reading source code. (/usr/src/linux*/Documentation/crypto says next to nothing, and the two URLs in the file are not working)
If you're willing to switch from GNU/Linux to other free OSs, you
can get excellent hardware-crypto support. In particular, OpenBSD
(http://www.openbsd.org) supports a number of crypto boards/boxes,
detailed on their crypto page (http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html).
They provide nice documentation, in particular they have _very_ good
man pages.
ciao,
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