[Voyage-linux] How to to enable OCF for openssl?

[Punky Tse]

Hi Michael,

Please reinstall the openssl package by "apt-get install --reinstall 
openssl libssl0.9.8" .  It was found that stock voyage 0.6.2 doesn't 
build with cryptodev engine.
 
Regards,
Punky

Michael Fung wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> Could anyone give me pointers or steps to enable H/W aes on my Alix board?
>
> I tried these and it still does not work:
>
> I am using voyage 0.6.2
>
> modprobe geode-aes ocf cryptosoft cryptodev
>
> use lsmod to confirm they are loaded
>
> installed openssl0.9.8g-15+lenny1.ocf  (checked with dpkg -s)
>
> then run:
> # openssl speed -evp aes128
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 961140 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 308167 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 83509 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 21321 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s
> Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 2048 size blocks: 10688 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s
> OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
> built on: Sun Jun 28 01:45:33 HKT 2009
> options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(idx)
> compiler: gcc -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -O3 -march=i586 -Wa,--noexecstack -g -Wall -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM
> available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value]
> timing function used: times
> The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
> type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   2048 bytes
> aes-128-cbc       5126.08k     6574.23k     7126.10k     7277.57k     7296.34k
>
> If I run:
> # openssl speed -evp aes128 -engine cryptodev 
> It gives:
> invalid engine "cryptodev"
> and performance is still the same.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael
>
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