Interesting
Hi,Thanks for this very interesting article. First of all, I am current thinking about buying an Eee PC and the A110 looks like an interesting alternative. I think, I'm going to follow your experiences...
View ArticleVIA Padlock alternatives
Hm, no, I don't know other CPUs with similar crypto engines. There are other chipsets with a hardware randum number generator (Padlock has one too), but I cannot think of a CPU with crypto acceleration...
View ArticleCanonical crypto setup howto?
Are you using encryption over LVM?Could you provide a link how you setup /dev/mapper/hdc2_crypt exactly?I tried encryption with LVM and got burnt. I probably messed it up.
View ArticleCrypto setup
Hi, I wrote a short short install HOWTO in the wiki, but there's not much information yet about the crypto part. It's a stock Debian installer setup using dm-crypt, with LVM on top, with ext3 on top....
View ArticleLots of embedded processors have onboard crypto
Ones I've used include the Intel IXP4xx processors, the IBM/AMCC PowerPC 40x parts, and the AMD Geode LX -- and they're a couple of generations out of date by now.Granted, I don't know if they easily...
View ArticleInteresting, which ones
Interesting, which ones specifically? Do you mean the A110 or Atom stuff?
View Articlegit
would git benefit from faster sha1? I don't know how much of a bottleneck it is. It would be interesting if it actually could make a difference.
View Articlegit and VIA Padlock
Hm, interesting question. Though git does use SHA-1 it won't benefit from Padlock in the default (Debian) config as it's linked against gnutls I think (which doesn't seem to support VIA Padlock)....
View ArticleOpenVPN via
Hi,Was good to read that you've successfully tested OpenVPN with Via C7 Padlock. I've been trying intermittently and failing.Could you please let me know the version of libssl, openvpn, kernel that...
View ArticleWhat about adding this to
What about adding this to the WineHQ appdb?http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=72
View ArticleStarcraft still is the
Starcraft still is the number one game for the heads who appreciate some decent multiplayer strategy.
View Articlegreat
Nice post and great article. Thanks for giving the information about the speed up Linux crypto operations on the one A110 laptop with via padlock. This was more useful and I will try it.
View ArticlelinuxSpeed
this blog will help me upgrade my Linux v2.6 and surely will improve the performance of dm-crypt. I can do more backups. thanks to this blog.
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