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Hi group,
I wonder if it is possible to use the encryption coprocessing capabilities of the wireless chipset in order to speed up AES/3DES encryption in user space (obviously for use in VPN applications).
Does anyone have a hint where to look at?
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone have a hint where to look at?
No ideas? Absolutely nothing? I'd expect this stuff to be with the wireless drivers, but apparently there hardly is something to find in this sector - the driver source is closed and there seems to be no active work on something that would be open source.
in some VIA processors (via C3 nehemia) there is a hardware encryption engine to which linux drivers/patches exist. "PadLock ACE". Maybe you could use
http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/
as starting point?
Thank you, looks pretty good. However, the Broadcom CPU seems to lack a similar ability.
Too bad that we have no source for the wireless drivers.
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