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
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