[Opendnssec-develop] Sun SCA6000 on Ubuntu

[roy at nominet.org.uk]

Jelte Jansen <jelte at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote on 06/30/2009 01:46:13 PM:

> 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.

I'll add pure hashing to hsm-speed, just to see if it accelerates hashing.

Roy