Soekris VPN-1401, OpenSSL,OpenBSD and TOR

tor tor at algae-world.com
Tue Jul 26 04:26:48 UTC 2005


Roger Dingledine wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:37:44PM -0700, tor wrote:
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>>Recently I had the chance to obtain a soekris vpn-1401 PCI encryptor 
>>board, with the following ,
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>Great. Our most recent alpha release has some support for hardware
>crypto accelerators:
>http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2005/msg00252.html
>but it's untested because we don't own any. Please test. :)
>
>This is mainly the public key stuff currently, if I understand
>correctly.
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>>I will be using it as a hardware assist for AES encryption
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>Our AES implementation is software-only and ships with Tor currently
>though. This is because when we started, most openssl's didn't have
>AES. In fact, many of them still don't. It's on our todo list to start
>using the openssl AES implementation if available, so we can take
>advantage of hardware accelerators if present. Feel free to step up
>and send us a patch for this, if you want it to happen quicker. :)
>
>Thanks,
>--Roger
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Gee roger... I dont have the time for patching.. as the board is only 
76.00 can I ship one to you?
(this will benefit all hardware implementations.. :)


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