[Opendnssec-develop] Sun SCA6000 on Ubuntu

[roy at nominet.org.uk]

Rickard Bondesson wrote on 06/29/2009 06:57:27 PM:

> > I've checked the SCA600 driver source - it does indeed use
> > Linux's standard module parameter mechanism.
> >
> > However I believe you may need to use underscores (_) instead
> > of hyphens (-) in the parameter name.
>
> Since the start up script uses insmod I had to add
> mca_enable_multi_part_sha1=1 in the start up script. The next
> question is to get SHA256 like on the solaris machine. Because I can
> not see any options for that...

Try mca_enable_sha512=1

This is the sha2 family.

> Result with hsmspeed:
> 64 threads, 100000 signatures per thread, 13046.24 sig/s (RSA 1024 bits)

That is about the topspeed you could get from an sca6000.

Cool!

Roy