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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...

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VIA 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...

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Canonical 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.

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Crypto 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....

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Lots 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Intel IXP4xx processors, the IBM/AMCC PowerPC 40x parts, and the AMD Geode LX -- and they're a couple of generations out of date by now.Granted, I don't know if they easily...

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Intel's newest processors

Intel's newest processors have hardware AES instructions.

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Interesting, which ones

Interesting, which ones specifically? Do you mean the A110 or Atom stuff?

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git

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.

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git 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)....

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OpenVPN 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...

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What about adding this to

What about adding this to the WineHQ appdb?http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=72

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Starcraft still is the

Starcraft still is the number one game for the heads who appreciate some decent multiplayer strategy.

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great

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.

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linuxSpeed

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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