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NAME

ubsec - Broadcom and BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x crypto accelerator

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Description
Hardware
See Also
History
Bugs

SYNOPSIS


.Cd device ubsec

DESCRIPTION

The ubsec driver supports cards containing Broadcom and BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x crypto accelerator chips.

The ubsec driver registers itself to accelerate DES, Triple-DES, MD5-HMAC, and SHA1-HMAC operations for ipsec(4) and crypto(4).

On those models which contain a public key engine (almost all of the more recent ones), this feature is registered with the crypto(4) subsystem.

On all models except the Bluesteel 5501 and Broadcom 5801, the driver registers itself to provide random data to the random(4) subsystem.

HARDWARE

The ubsec driver supports cards containing any of the following chips:
Bluesteel 5501 The original chipset, no longer made. This extremely rare unit was not very fast, lacked a RNG, and had a number of other bugs.
Bluesteel 5601 A faster and fixed version of the original, with a random number unit and large number engine added.
Broadcom BCM5801 A BCM5805 without public key engine or random number generator.
Broadcom BCM5802 A slower version of the BCM5805.
Broadcom BCM5805 Faster version of Bluesteel 5601.
Broadcom BCM5820 64 bit version of the chip, and significantly more advanced.
Broadcom BCM5821 Faster version of the BCM5820.
Broadcom BCM5822 Faster version of the BCM5820.
Broadcom BCM5823 A BCM5822 with AES capability.

SEE ALSO

crypt(3), crypto(4), intro(4), ipsec(4), random(4), crypto(9)

HISTORY

BUGS

 
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