padlock(4)
NAME
- padlock - driver for the cryptographic functions and RNG in
- VIA C3 and
Eden processors
SYNOPSIS
device crypto device cryptodev device padlock
DESCRIPTION
- The C3 and Eden processor series from VIA include hardware
- acceleration
for AES, as well as a hardware random number generator. - The padlock driver registers itself to accelerate AES opera
- tions for
crypto(4). - The hardware random number generator supplies data for the
- kernel
random(4) subsystem.
HISTORY
- The padlock driver first appeared in OpenBSD. The first
- FreeBSD release
to include it was FreeBSD 6.0.
SEE ALSO
crypt(3), crypto(4), intro(4), random(4), crypto(9)
AUTHORS
- The padlock driver was written by Jason Wright <jason@OpenB
- SD.org>. It
was ported to FreeBSD by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeB - SD.org>. This
manual page was written by Christian Brueffer <bruef - fer@FreeBSD.org>.
- BSD December 10, 2005