[Opendnssec-develop] Sun SCA6000 on Ubuntu

[Jelte Jansen]

Rickard Bondesson wrote:
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>> 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.
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> So if most HSMs do hashing in the library, then we might gain speed by doing it ourself if we have optimized code?
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yes

>> Note that we use them now because ldns only got hashing 
>> functionality very very recently.
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> Where is the SHA-X code from?
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Some say it was forged in the fiery mountains of doom by the dark lord himself. 
Some say it was the result of mister Schneier screaming random sounds into a 
microphone.

All I know is that I got it from OpenBSD.

Jelte