dm-crypt with hardware acceleration?
Hi folks,
I am planning to build a file-server using dm-crypt / LUKS to
encrypt the data-filesystem.
Does anybody have experiences with or does know of PCI-cards that do
fast AES-encryption that are supported by Linux and can be used with
dm-crypt?
I started googling for such cards, but could not find any
linux-hw-crypto-fs examples or something. There seem to be some
broadcom-chip with linux-support (http://hifn7751.sourceforge.net/)
but the site is 3 years old and offers an alpha-state driver...
As it would be nice if the server would consume not so much power I
thought of the VIA C7 Processor as a nice alternative as it has a
crypto-chip included.. but it seems that this processor is not
available (yet). How about C3? Too slow maybe?
Any suggestions/hints/experiences?
Thanks in advance
Cheers
-Marc
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