UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference
24-26 March 2009 in London
Crypto acceleration on FreeBSD
Abstract
The opencrypto framework in the FreeBSD kernel provides support for hardware acceleration of cryptographic operations. This paper presents an overview of the framework with particular focus on acceleration and explains the advantages and pitfalls of using hardware acceleration on various workloads and system configurations.
Speaker biography
Philip Paeps is a software consultant and contractor based in Belgium. He focuses mainly on embedded and real-time systems. For the last few years, he has been spending a lot of energy on the network stack of a very widely deployed residential internet gateway device.
In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing mainly to the kernel, a member of the FreeBSD security team and the FreeBSD core team secretary. He has been using FreeBSD for longer than he can remember.
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