[tor-relays] Sharing experience with Via Nano 1.6ghz with Padlock hw accel

Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists lists at infosecurity.ch
Sun Jun 5 15:11:19 UTC 2016



On 6/5/16 5:01 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote:
>> Do you get messages about successfully using 'padlock' in /var/log/tor/log?

> Yes
> root at dedi-fr-23644:~# zgrep -i padlock /var/log/tor/log*
> /var/log/tor/log:Jun 05 16:58:27.000 [notice] Default OpenSSL engine for
> AES-128-ECB is VIA PadLock (no-RNG, ACE) [padlock]

I noticed just now that we could *also* enable the hw RNG of the
Padlock, to further offload the Via Nano main CPU processing:

http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/index.xp?show_selected=1&msgid=444#feedback_form

Curious to see if that small server server could hit 100Mbit/s sustained
traffic barrier!

Fabio


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