UltraSPARC T2 crypto provider device drivers
The UltraSPARC T2 hardware crypto features are exposed via 3 drivers in Solaris:
1) ncp - similar to the UltraSPARC T1; handles RSA,
DSA, DH and ECC (more details can be found
2) n2cp - handles bulk ciphers and hashes [more details can be found here (the supported modes of operation are also detailed)]
3) n2rng - access to the HW random number generator (more details can be found here )
Would it make sense to add compression features to the hardware, or is it something that benefits much less from specialized hardware than crypto?
Posted by Marc on September 13, 2007 at 04:46 AM PDT #
I would concur -- crypto is the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we can think about effectively offloading to HW accelerators.
For sever processors and on-chip accelerators, crypto is an important first step....
Posted by Lawrence Spracklen on September 13, 2007 at 12:08 PM PDT #