[Opendnssec-develop] Sun SCA6000 on Ubuntu

[Jelte Jansen]

roy at nominet.org.uk wrote:
> 
> Why bother? why use an hsm to do the hashing? Just because we can ... often
> ?
> 

only for a potential optimization should the hsm also somehow accelerate 
hashing. AFAIK most HSMs don't do it, but implement it in the library they 
provide to talk to it.

Note that we use them now because ldns only got hashing functionality very very 
recently.

Jelte